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Re: Size?
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Size?
- From: "Rosimildo daSilva" <rosimildo at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 16:47:51 -0600
>From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
>To: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
>CC: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [ECOS] Size?
>Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 17:22:40 -0500
>
>I'm actually a little puzzled by RH's choice to go down the
>*NIX-emulation-layer route. It seems to me that it would have been much
>easier to build a set of tools that run as native Win32 applications. This
>would avoid a host of weird line termination issues, having to run inside a
>special environment, etc.
>
>I mean, compilers are pretty much the easiest software in the world to
>port... I'd be curious to know the thinking behind wrapping it all in
>cygwin.
Boy!, I am hopeful that one of these days, the CygWin folks would
act together, and once for all, fix this line termination issue.
I have been using Cygwin for the last 3 years, and it is a major
pain the as*. Everything else works very smoothly. But, line
termination is a major issue.
Rosimildo.
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