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tchiwam wrote: |
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> Patrick Dawson wrote: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> Does anyone have any information on what Gentoo/Cygwin is? Who is in |
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>>> charge of this, and is it really at the stage where we should be |
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>>> recruiting people to work on it? I'm *extremely* wary of the idea of |
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>>> this kind of thing being committed without prior discussion -- there's |
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>>> far more difference between anything we currently have and Cygwin than |
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>>> there is between osx or bsd and linux-gnu, and we know how much work |
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>>> those two are already... |
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>> I think Patrick Lauer is the only one who's actually doing stuff with |
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>> Gentoo/Cygwin at the moment, so ask him. Judging by the extreme lack |
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>> of activity on the gentoo-cygwin list, I don't think it's nearly at |
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>> the stage where recruitment should start. |
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> I would think this port would potentially open the biggest market to |
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> gentoo, and the scariest one too... |
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I'm not sure I agree that the market is either big or scary. CygWin is a |
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niche -- Linux folk constrained by corporate policies to run Windows; a |
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fast way to get some open source tools up and running on a Windows |
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system until a native port is available. It *isn't* dual boot, and it |
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*isn't* VMWare Workstation. It *is*, however, gcc, grep, perl, sort, |
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xorg-x11, guile, ruby, apache, postgres, clisp, etc., essentially all |
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compatible with other GNU-based environments. |
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I work in a mixed Windows/Linux environment. Out of perhaps 150 - 200 |
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software engineers, two that I know of are using CygWin -- myself and |
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another engineer on the same team that builds the same tools I do. I'm |
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sort of a "Johnny Appleseed" of tools where I work; I test out stuff |
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like Gentoo, CygWin, R, ns/nam, etc. at home and sneak them into the lab. :) |
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> In order I would say: |
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> -Learn about OSX and "system provided services" |
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I've come within a gnat's eyebrow of buying a Macintosh on several |
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occasions, mostly because there are quite a few music tools that only |
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run there. However, those tools, or their open source "equivalents", are |
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mostly available under GNU/Linux. When I buy a 64-bit machine I'll take |
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a look at both Macs and AMD-64s (and Intel 64-bit chips if they have |
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anything in my price range). In any event, surely OSX is a bigger market |
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than CygWin. |
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