Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-16 Thread Gregory John Casamento
All,Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep under MinGW, I believe it to be redundant to continue to support CYGWIN since it's not currently being maintained and since MinGW does everything needed to get GNUstep working properly under Windows.For this reason, I believe that s

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 17 Jan 2006, at 06:01, Gregory John Casamento wrote: All, Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep under MinGW, I believe it to be redundant to continue to support CYGWIN since it's not currently being maintained and since MinGW does everything needed to get GNUs

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-16 Thread Roman Belenov
Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, since cygwin is supposed to emulate unix, I think gnustep should > treat cygwin as a unix variant .. so maybe little/no special support is > necessary. Unless one wants to use win32 backend ;) It worked several releases ago, but in

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-17 Thread Gregory John Casamento
Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; GNUstep Developers Sent: Tue 17 Jan 2006 02:26:02 AM EST Subject: Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, since cygwin is supposed to emulate

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-17 Thread Riccardo
Hello, On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 07:01 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote: Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep under MinGW, I believe it to be redundant to continue to support CYGWIN since it's not currently being maintained and since MinGW does everything nee

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-17 Thread Gregory John Casamento
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: GNUstep Developers Sent: Tue 17 Jan 2006 02:38:23 PM EST Subject: Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support Hello, On Tuesday, January 17, 2006, at 07:01 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote: > Given that there have been great strides in supporting GNUstep under > MinGW,

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-17 Thread Roman Belenov
Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unless one wants to use win32 backend ;) > We already have MinGW. I meant win32 backend in GNUstep compiled by cygwin, of course. The rest of my letter explained my reasons and why they are not significant. --

Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support

2006-01-18 Thread Gregory John Casamento
CTED]> Cc: GNUstep Developers Sent: Wed 18 Jan 2006 02:41:23 AM EST Subject: Re: Deprecation of CYGWIN support Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unless one wants to use win32 backend ;) > We already have MinGW. I meant win32 backend in GNUstep compiled by