--- On Sun, 30/6/13, André Hentschel nerv@dawncrow.de wrote:
On 29.06.2013 23:34, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
wrote:
...
Also, running cygwin on wine, compared to other
windows
software which has no unix/linux equivalents, is hardly a
priority.
That is obviously personally true for you.
And for my
personal needs Cygwin on Wine is a "would be nice" software build
and test
platform.
...
No. Just the fact that nobody else bothered to respond
to this thread should convince you that getting cygwin is not a priority to most people who is knowledgeable and capable of hacking wine.
I've been following this thread. What i would like to point you all to is: http://wiki.winehq.org/CygwinSupport It describes why running cygwin on wine is not that senseless low priority thing. Further it's mentioned at: http://wiki.winehq.org/TodoList and http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites
Wiki is what it is - anybody with a wish can add an entry. If somebody put their name down and say: "*I* will do this!" - and have the knowledge & incentive to deliver, that's when it gets interesting. Until then, it is not. (Those entries might just have been added by the original poster of this thread - doesn't prove anything).
Using words like "showstopper" is off-putting. Especially considering there are at least two well-known(?) ways of getting around a mere installation problem of a piece of [any] open-source software - (1) unpack manually. It is open-source and all the actions of the installer are known; (2) copy from an existing installation & clone the relevant registry entries.
and (3) being able to install is not a warranty it will run.
In terms of "relative" importance, consider that mingw (both native and cross) GNU toolchain works well, the toolchain part of cygwin is hardly a priority; further, between mingw and MSVC (note the distinction - I mean mingw, not cygwin), I would rather spend time improving wine's support for MSVC .
That is an interesting observation - getting microsoft products to work well is obviously a priority to the wider community & to Crossover, but that isn't mentioned much in those wiki pages.