Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Jan 2006, at 06:01, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> All,
>
> Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep  
> under MinGW, I believe it to be redundant to continue to support  
> CYGWIN since it's not currently being maintained and since MinGW  
> does everything needed to get GNUstep working properly under Windows.
>
> For this reason, I believe that support for GNUstep under CYGWIN  
> should be deprecated and eventually removed.
>
> Are there any comments or objections regarding this?

Well, I think it's fair to say we don''t really support it ... and I  
guess we should make that clear on the website.

However, I don't think that means we should should intentionally  
break anything (ie remove cygwin specific stuff mfrom the  
codebase) ... and if someone is willing to do the work to make/keep  
it usable (ie suport it informally) we should accept their changes.
Actually, since cygwin is supposed to emulate unix, I think gnustep  
should treat cygwin as a unix variant .. so maybe little/no special  
support is necessary.