Vincent Manis scripsit: > John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I > was doing Windows stuff, I normally built things via bash scripts > (just as I do today on OSX). I did use MinGW/MSys (curse their > weird capitalization) for exactly that, once or twice. But most of > my coworkers were kind of locked into Windows, and trying to explain > shell scripts to them would have been very stressful on all of us. So > had I been building something for them to use, I probably would have > created a batch file for building it, on the grounds that they would > be more likely to understand it than a shell script.
Quite so, which is why I'd suggest that the msys version be scrapped and that everyone on Windows use either the cygwin or the mingw version. -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan Never in the field of human computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few! (pace Winston Churchill) _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
