Future distribution layout possibilities

[Geoffrey Noer]

Colin Peters wrote:
[...]
> Apparently Cygnus is looking at making GNU-Win32 a vanilla Win32
> compiler with a UNIX-emulation option in the future.

Correct.  Presumably if and when this happens, _WIN32 will always be
defined but __CYGWIN32__ will only be defined when the Unix-emulation
option is on.

> Hopefully if that happens they will make it possible to download
> just the compiler and tools necessary for ordinary Win32 programming
> instead of everything you need to recompile the entire compiler
> suite (though it is, of course, nice to have the option).

I could imagine shipping:

1) just compiler/binutils/gdb installer
2) just Unix user tools installer (everything that isn't in #1)
3) everything in one installer, giving the option of what to install

I'd also like to clean the directory structure up a bit.

But this is all stuff to work out for a later date...

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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