From: "Dmitry Bely" <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
To: ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:48:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90823c940712261448k470733d8ya9c37867f1fdf3d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712261245.48170.ober.14@osu.edu>
On Dec 26, 2007 8:45 PM, Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu> 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.
- Dmitry Bely
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 14:30 Kuba Ober
2007-12-20 15:23 ` Zheng Li
2007-12-20 20:18 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2007-12-21 14:06 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-23 15:20 ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2007-12-23 16:33 ` Re : " Adrien
2007-12-24 12:50 ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-26 17:59 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:54 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-06 15:14 ` Re : " Adrien
2008-01-08 14:25 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-24 10:40 ` Richard Jones
2007-12-26 18:01 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 17:45 ` Kuba Ober
2007-12-26 22:48 ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
2007-12-27 12:41 ` Kuba Ober
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