RE: idea for a new project, libntcmd

["Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael Kitover [mailto:caelum@debian.org] 
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: idea for a new project, libntcmd
> 
> 
> Currently there is a fundamental divide between the cmd.exe 
> shell and a unix shell, even on windows with Cygwin.
> 
> 
> This would allow better interaction between the windows and 
> cygwin worlds, and also be convenient for windows users new 
> to unix. It would also remove most of the reasons a user 
> might have to use cmd instead of a cygwin shell. It should 
> also allow for running windows makefiles as-is.
> 
> Much of what would be needed for this project is already 
> provided in the ReactOS cmd.exe clone:
> 
> Thoughts? Is this interesting/crazy/impossible?

IMHO, you've missed the point of cygwin.  As I understand cygwin, it's a
tool for unix users that have to use windows(or programmers trying to
port a unix program to win32), not a tool to introduce unix to windows
users.  And there is already a tool for running windows makefiles, GNU
make was ported to win32 long time ago.

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