On 29.06.2013 23:34, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
--- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
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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.
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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