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=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637C0BC69 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:48:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAALJockfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQDQEBAQgKKYEUkzCEOQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,209,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="7254456" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Dec 2007 23:48:37 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBQMmaBe008935 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:48:36 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAIRockfRVca+kmdsb2JhbACQDQEBAQEHAgYpgRaTM4Q5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,209,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="5536277" Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.190]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Dec 2007 23:48:35 +0100 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g11so1866849rvb.57 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:48:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=t/YiOyiphYorUvZMF2dFe23xEN35qNhAqGSbwdydng8=; b=gSi3UMBicyXc5TveFsHOYxzrBSSfctXDgoTeS/8AYG7HN6HPIdIAzq8c1fUzn1Jjo2PH2zKaqR8zscD5q1O5O2f6Lt/bpQiUSh7NF7Gm3L3QcmxggyQiv5Er4iDQ3GEUAyiEhVDZiLg4ryRWwwFzUcjk+58Bq5CQq7/H1Jb9XJY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sHNVpStD20v6/ILLliswM7B+SCu+ko72tQiId4T3p9ZyrkgSLfc130eDPiS1w2ftHBg23rawFYSA9eERzBKqVmcuGoTfngUuVdJ37k9d+vhWbnU3L7EbosWGP42emWfOHAuu8dAtw1NXpfqhEhRYE3yNsf3JaqK39fvD3G7hqr4= Received: by 10.141.62.15 with SMTP id p15mr3640695rvk.159.1198709314685; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:48:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.200.16 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:48:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <90823c940712261448k470733d8ya9c37867f1fdf3d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:48:34 +0300 From: "Dmitry Bely" To: ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin? In-Reply-To: <200712261245.48170.ober.14@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200712200930.29585.ober.14@osu.edu> <200712201518.20487.ober.14@osu.edu> <90823c940712210606h24f7617eh4e20745cd3e4782a@mail.gmail.com> <200712261245.48170.ober.14@osu.edu> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4772DA44.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; mingw:01 cygwin:01 cygwin:01 ocaml:01 clashes:01 another's:01 forks:01 mingw:01 26,:98 wrote:01 unix:01 dmitry:01 dmitry:01 caml-list:01 posix:01 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. - Dmitry Bely