RE: What Cygwin is

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Sep  8 11:31, Brian Ford wrote:
> > > No, now we continually have to explain why you can't install said
> > > x86 Linux binary/package and run it under our Linux 
> emulator.  Heck, 
> > > you can't even *compile* said Linux firewall/router/proxy server 
> > > etc. under our Linux emulator.  Doesn't sound like much 
> of an emulation to me.
> >
> > You don't think that's the fault of our project page, do 
> you?  Did you 
> > read it lately?  For about three months, there's a pretty 
> precise text 
> > with the headline "What Isn't Cygwin?"
> 
> Sorry, no; I had not read it within that time period.  I was 
> going on recollection; my bad.  It is much better now.
> 
> However, if Cygwin is "a Linux emulation layer providing 
> substantial Linux API functionality", then shouldn't Linux 
> APIs and behavior now trump POSIX and the Single Unix 
> Specification?  Is that what we really want?
>

No.
 
> I'm just not comfortable with the removal of all all 
> references to POSIX and UNIX from that description.
> 

Nor I, nor apparently many others, especially when the replacement is simply
not correct.  And anyway, if it's going to be a "Linux emulation layer", it
better be changed to "GNU/Linux emulation layer" or Stallman will throw a
hissy fit.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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