Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

[Riccardo]

Hello,


On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 07:01 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> 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?

Although I know the advantages of MinGW and the fact that we have 
manpowertrouble I think it is not very smart. Cygwin is often more 
widespread and also offers better compatibility. I can't compile FTP.app 
on MinGW, while it would most probably work on Cygwin since it has 
"real" sockets, the same goes for another couple of application I tried 
under windows which depend on a more unixy environment.

I know that most of these applications could be fixed with a certain 
effort, perhaps small, but this options commetns by itself and it is the 
reason why cygwin is often preferred to mingw.

-R