From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2011-09-26 17:29:07
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On 9/25/2011 4:39 AM, Rinrin wrote: > Hi all: I have been doing an initial work on cygwin which supports > msys-like path conversion. just do a little testing but when using > mingw/mingw-w64 gcc to compile native program it works. Some parts > of msys changes were not ported, like /etc/fstab support( new > cygwin support it). And here was not take care of symlinks(seems > that cygwin have been deal with it) Please review and give me some > advices, thanks. https://github.com/rinrin-/cygwin-alternative How does this differ from Ralph Engels' ongoing work for an msys v2.0? Are you attempting to create a third project distinct from both msys and cygwin? If not, and you're also doing a proto-msys-2.0 implementation based on modern cygwin, why can't you work with Ralph? Why a separate project? I'm okay with competition; odds are we'd end up taking bits of each for the "official" msys-$next. I just want to understand the goals and motivation of your project, as compared to Ralph's. -- Chuck |