Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW vs. SFU as development environment?

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

On 2004-10-06 5:49 PM, Dominique Orban wrote:
> 
> I may have missed the train, but i very recently realized that Microsoft 
> released its Services For Unix
[...]
> In general terms, i was wondering what the differences were between 
> MinGW/MSYS and SFU as Unix-like development environments in Windows?

   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg01893.html
"Microsoft published a crippled POSIX subsystem for certification
purposes only, and it was never meant to be used for any real work."

   http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-28-005-20-PS-CY-MS
[The author of the above-quoted message helped on Interix]
[BTW, he also did a lot of work on MinGW years ago]

I thought the brief quote above meant that the ms thing wasn't
worth looking at. Reading it again now, maybe it means that ms's
initial effort was poor, but what Softway later did wasn't.