merging mingw and cygwin

[Andrew DeFaria]

Edward Peschko wrote:

>Like I said, I'm not worried about my specific applications. I want cygwin to transparently and with no fuss - and correctly - build third party APIs, so I can properly link with them (and debug them if necessary).
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All I can say is what I've heard many others say, which is... PTC.

>>We can speculate from now until forever but until and unless you try it  you'll never know for sure. Let us know how you make out...
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>I did try it. With berkeleydb.  Read my previous post.
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Sorry. I didn't read it thoroughly.

>>Let us know how your first implementation of this concept goes...
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>Is this an OK from the developers of cygwin to do an implementation, with  the results of that implementation being merged into cygwin? I don't want  to spend a lot of time pursuing it if my results don't have a chance of being merged.
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>The last time I asked, the answer was no to this question.
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Well I'm no developer *OF* Cygwin so I cannot comment with authority 
however if what you say would indeed be useful I'm sure that Cygwin 
people would accept or at least evaluate an implementation that you write.
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