From: Kevin Smith <yarcs@qualitycode.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:50:04 GMT
Subject: Cygwin and Native MS Windows (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers)
Message-ID: <42C17FBC.7030509@qualitycode.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050628150752.GC1275@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
 > Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:57:00PM CEST, I got a letter
 > where Kevin Smith <yarcs@qualitycode.com> told me that...
 >
 >>- Can run on (native) MS Windows
 >>  (necessary for me because I often work on cross-platform projects)
 >
 >
 > I'd expect everything to work fine with Cygwin (or with only minor
 > problems easy to fix) or just any working bash + GNU coreutils
 > installation. Any issue with that?

I don't see cygwin as being a reasonable option for a core tool like 
SCM. Cygwin is too large and invasive to expect Windows users to install 
and use it. For my own projects, native Windows operation is a requirement.

Kevin