>Why not? At best its just a "compatibility" DLL that allows easier >migration between Unix and Windows. For specific applications you don't >need the full Cygwin install, though you do get a great set of tools >with it. I use Cygwin to allow a common build environment that works >seamlessly on Solaris, Linux and Windows/Cygwin.
Didn't know you didn't need the full install, so I'll definitely give that a try in the future. I'd love to have a version of PG running on my windows partition. The full package is (as I remember) quite large, and not particularly friendly for those folks who are not Linux/unix friendly. It also seemed to run (how to put this) a little weird on my system, and that was enough to make me skeptical. The absolute killer for the app I am developing is that first part: there's no way I can put this out there and require folks to figure out cygwin and then postgres. Just ain't going to happen. But I'm not locking myself into windows - good god no! Banish the thought. I happen to be writing my application in PHP with an excellent database abstraction layer, so it will (theoretically) work on any supported platform, with any one of seven different databases, including Postgres. That's the open source way. :) >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Thompson >Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:08 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] databases for linux > > >Why not? At best its just a "compatabilty" DLL that allows easier >migration between Unix and Windows. For specific applications you don't >need the full Cygwin install, though you do get a great set of tools >with it. I use Cygwin to allow a common build environment that works >seamlessly on Solaris, Linux and Windows/Cygwin. Seems pointless redoing >all your hard work for a backwards (closed) system like Windows when >somebody else has done excellent work doing it for you. Thats the open >source way... > >Nick. > >Aron Pilhofer wrote: > >>I knew someone was going to mention Cygwin. I've played with it some, but >>wouldn't under any circumstances consider deploying anything critical that >>requires it. There are times I wish free software folks were a little less >>dogmatic, because I think a stable Win32 version of Postgres would be one >>killer application. >> > > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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