From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-29T08:02:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Another nail in CygWin's coffin (attached)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Austin is basically right -- *nobody* should use CygWin as a Windows
> development platform/IDE/whatever. And nobody should use CygWin for Ruby
> or Rails work of any kind on a Windows platform, since everything you
> need is available in native form (the One-Click installer, Instant
> Rails, and a native Windows PostGreSQL).
> 
> However, someone (Larry Wall??) flagged laziness as a virtue, so I'll
> ignore Austin's complaints about laziness and continue to use CygWin for
> times when someone gives me 15 minutes to get a job done on a Windows
> platform that would take me several hours or several days to do if I had to
> 
> a. Locate a native Windows tool to do it,
> b. Install the Windows tool and
> c. Learn how to use the Windows tool.

d. realize how maddeningly frustrating it is when the Windows tool is 
only 80% correct in what it's doing and ultimately revert back to Cygwin.

There's also the Services for Unix, which provides a (very) limited set 
of unixy tools, but when I'm stuck on Windows I too simply must have 
cygwin. Anyone who believes there's a usable Windows equivalent for 
every day-to-day unix CLI app is just plain wrong.

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