Cygwin is a great toolkit, and I heartily recommend it to anyone who is used to working on Unix. But I would like to see AOLserver 4 continue to run natively under Win32. In addition to Cygwin taking up disk space and adding another layer of debugging / installation / configuration complexity, there is a performance penalty - not something I'm excited about introducing into my web server. I don't want to seem ungrateful - I am indebted to Jim, Kris, and the rest of the AOLserver community for their fantastic work. I just hate seeing good features go away. Anyway, I will try to build AOLserver 4b2 on top of Cygwin sometime soon. In the meantime, please email me if you are interested in experimenting with this. Thanks,
Jamie At 02:06 PM 11/8/2001 -0600, Rob Mayoff wrote: >This was discussed in the last weekly chat. Yes, the plan is to stop >supporting Win32 in AOLserver. Reasons given, as I recall, were that it >took a lot of Jim's time to implement/maintain and added significant >complexity to some parts of the code, such as the threads package >(especially since he's now considering supporting only pthreads, not >other random proprietary threads APIs). > >A suggestion was floated that AOLserver could perhaps run on top of the >cygwin package, which implements many Unix APIs and commands under >Windows. If someone wishes to port AOLserver to run on cygwin, and it >doesn't require many changes, then I suspect that Jim would accept >the patches for that.
