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Jim.Hyslop wrote:
| Jim Meyering wrote: | |> Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development |> environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it |> looks like MKS has support for it, too. | | |> If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it |> must have some important redeeming features. | | | The problem with the cygwin build is that it requires Cygwin.dll as | well. The MSVC build stands alone, not requiring any external DLLs. | | | I don't think it is reasonable to require all Windows users to | download and install Cygwin just to run CVS.
I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least relatively innocent and should still be catered to.
Regards,
Derek
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