Please forgive me all, my mistake to write to the mailing list alias instead of Christopher directly. Also forgive me for bringing up a way off-topic to the list.
Let me shot a different question: Are there plans to make Cygwin a windows Subsystem? I truly like Cygwin, I'm sorry If I bothered the list. Thanks a lot, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: Re: Quick question, please help! > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:52:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:23:01PM -0500, Simara wrote: > >>I've read your posts about Interix, and I know you are not happy about > >>it, but here comes the ugly question again: > >> > >>How could I compile or use Xfree with Interix, I sure would use cygwin > >>but my boss really digs Interix because it is not emulated, and our > >>tests with most ported apps is really faster than using interix (way > >>fast), please help! or they will start coding the apps in visual > >>basic!!!! and our current linux boxes will have to be migrated to > >>windows... > >> > >>Thanks and sorry for the ugly question. > > > >I don't know what the question is. Interix *is* faster than cygwin. > >Interix has some limitations, though. If you read past discussions you > >probably know what they are. > > Oh. Sorry. I didn't pay as much attention as I should have. I thought > this was a normal vague clueless "question". Instead, it was not just > clueless but *remarkably* pushy. > > Chuck's response is correct of course. I do disagree slightly with > Chuck's suggestion to move this to the xfree mailing list. > > This is off-topic for any cygwin mailing list. You're on your own. > Please don't bother the cygwin mailing lists with this type of question > again. > > For the record, I'm not really happy or unhappy about Interix. > Discussions of how to get things working under Interix are just > off-topic. I don't know anything about Interix beyond the high level > stuff. And, again, discussing ways to get things working with Interix > is very obviously off-topic. > > And, all of you who are now poised to send off a missive informing me of > various ways that mentioning Interix could conceivably be on-topic -- > please don't bother. I don't need educating on the subject. > > cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
