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RE: Cygwince
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:41:12 +0100
- Subject: RE: Cygwince
----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 22 April 2005 17:24
> ----Original Message----
>> From: Craig A. Vanderborgh
>> Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19
>
>> We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS -
>> primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down. Another reason for
>> starting from this distribution is that MSYS has a version of bash and
>> the utilities that all come together in a fairly tidy bundle.
>
>
> This would be a terrible mistake, since MSYS has nothing to do with
> cygwin whatsoever but is an entirely separate and unrelated port of gnu
> tools to windoze.
Although to be fair, it _will_ achieve your stated goal of keeping the
.dll size down........ <g>
cheers,
DaveK
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