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This. Cygwin is not UNIX. It looks like it and runs UNIX tools but it has some gotchas that can shoot you in the toes and face if you move your stuff to anothe
by csmuk 13y ago
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Cygwin is not UNIX. It looks like it and runs UNIX tools but it has some gotchas that can shoot you in the toes and face if you move your stuff to another box.
- nocman 13y agoI'm not sure I understand what you are objecting to (or what exactly of dmourati's response you were agreeing with) . I never claimed that Cygwin was UNIX. Far from it. However, Cygwin gives me enough of a UNIX-like environment in Windows operating systems to make administering and developing software in them almost bearable. I'd rather not have to deal with Windows environments at all, but my work requires it, so I do the best I can. I don't have any problem moving things from box to box. If I administer a Windows machine, it will almost always have Cygwin on it. I do development and administration on them all the time. I'd be curious to know what kind of "stuff" you were moving to another box that gave you trouble. Perhaps you were talking about moving executables/DLLs between different versions of Cygwin. I keep my machines mostly on the same version of Cygwin, and I'm not developing Cygwin-specific applications, so I'm not linking to the Cygwin DLLS, so I don't have problems with that.