From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638EBBC69 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:41:33 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAMUrc0dDWxLC/2dsb2JhbACBV5AJmi0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,211,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="20724379" Received: from ip67-91-18-194.z18-91-67.customer.algx.net (HELO server1.bertec.net) ([67.91.18.194]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 27 Dec 2007 13:41:32 +0100 Received: from kuba.bertec.net (kuba.bertec.net [192.168.2.16]) by server1.bertec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB3ECDFB7 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:41:31 -0500 (EST) From: Kuba Ober To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin? Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:41:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20071123.740460) References: <200712200930.29585.ober.14@osu.edu> <200712261245.48170.ober.14@osu.edu> <90823c940712261448k470733d8ya9c37867f1fdf3d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <90823c940712261448k470733d8ya9c37867f1fdf3d9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712270741.29994.ober.14@osu.edu> X-Spam: no; 0.00; mingw:01 cygwin:01 cygwin:01 ocaml:01 clashes:01 another's:01 forks:01 mingw:01 cheers:01 2007,:98 26,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 unix:01 dmitry:01 On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Dmitry Bely wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 8:45 PM, Kuba Ober wrote: > > > If MSYS become mandatory I strongly disagree. Cygwin is a common > > > requirement for building any Ocaml distribution on Windows (even if > > > you use Microsoft Visual Studio). I see absolutely no problem to > > > install and use it. Why I should bother to install another Cygwin fork > > > (MSYS) and handle name clashes etc.? > > > > Cygwin and MSYS are very different. Calling one another's fork is like > > saying that Linux and FreeBSD are both UNIX forks. > > It looks like an offtopic here but still: > > http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MSYS > "The POSIX layer used by MSYS is a fork of the 1.3.3 version of Cygwin." > > In fact they just forked cygwin1.dll and stripped it down. Hmm, interesting, I didn't know that. Yet I'd still imagine that the POSIX layer in MSYS is targeted toward the build tools themselves, not "other" software. Cheers, Kuba