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Re: pkg/24731 (bootstrap-pkgsrc on cygwin (patch))
The following reply was made to PR pkg/24731; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Krister Walfridsson <cato%df.lth.se@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/24731 (bootstrap-pkgsrc on cygwin (patch))
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:08:00 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> How likely is it that Cygwin will work better than Interix?
I think it is likely to work much better... It is after all built out of
many of the same components as a Linux system, so even much of the
software that think that "all the world is Linux" works without
modification.
> Do we want to have support for both?
I personally do not care about Interix, but Cygwin support would have
helped me many times (I have never seen a Windows machine with Interix
installed, but there is seldom I use a Windows machine without Cgygwin...)
But I see no problem having both in pkgsrc.
> I don't want to support Cygwin as it is using the Win32 subsystems which
> adds a number of nasty side-effects, e.g. breaking of Unix filesystems with
> regard to consecutive dots in filenames etc.
I do not understand your comment. What problems are there with
"consecutive dots in filenames etc."? AFAIK, the only real problem is
that the filesystem is case-insensitive... (but doesn't that problem exist
for Interix too?)
/Krister
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