From: hemant Date: 2006-10-28T10:20:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Another nail in CygWin's coffin (attached) On 10/28/06, Robert Oliver wrote: > On 10/27/06, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > > > I haven't followed this thred so don't know if it's been mentioned, but if > > your stuck on windows and don't want to use native windows, maybe try > > colinux? > > > I believe coLinux was mentioned a few times in that thread ;) > > -- > Robert W. Oliver II > President, OCS Solutions, Inc. - Web Hosting and Development > http://www.ocssolutions.com/ > > Toll-Free Phone - 1-800-672-8415 > > OCS Ruby Forums - http://www.rubyforums.com/ > My Blog - http://www.rwoliver.com/ > > "Austin is basically right -- *nobody* should use CygWin as a Windows development platform/IDE/whatever." Why? I have a case, where my office PC has only Windows and my development machines that stores the projects and where my programs run is Linux machines and I access it remotely through samba/putty. I use Emacs extensively, call me naive if you will...but i needed X Window with Emacs for certain lisp packages that i use. Then i looked into Windows version of Emacs. 1. I needed latest Emacs from CVS -meaning got to compile the thing 2. Tried using W32Emacs...but since it was a binary install...few of my lisp packages refused to work. I already had cygwin installed..so i took the plunge..and compiled Emacs from CVS under cygwin and it works pretty nicely. Though i agree, you can't use cygwin to host your RoR projects..even in development. But its fine..if you are using it as a IDE/UNIX toolchain. -- There was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary.