On Saturday 25 August 2007 01:34, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2007-08-24 23:43Z, Georg Nikodym wrote:
> [...]
>
> >> (The annoying problem being, you build an app using the mingw/gcc
> >> suite and a customer uses it in a cygwin shell and has things like
> >> vi complain about files being read-only. Just a general, crappy
> >> user experience.)
>
> What would you have the MinGW developers do about this? Rewrite
> the C runtime library that MinGW uses, to make it Cygwin-aware?
Which kind of flies in the face of MinGW's minimalist objectives; this
certainly isn't going to happen.
> Wouldn't you have the same issue if you built the app with msvc?
I too would expect this to be the case; after all, MinGW and MSVC share
a common underlying API, with virtually no intermediate stuff, of the
kind Cygwin provides.
Regards,
Keith.
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