scripting and cygwin

[Peter A. Castro]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:42:54AM -0700, Stepp, Charles wrote:
>> Why would you bother with the Windoze machine if you have OS X/FreeBSD
>> available?
>>
>> Cygwin provides my X, Expect, bash, etc. on my corporate mandated
>> Windoze laptop. Otherwise...
>
> Yes, that's the $65536 question.  If you can use a real UNIX why would you
> try an emulation running on top of Windows?  And, then complain about the
> emulation when it doesn't run as fast as the real thing?

Oh!  Oh!  Pick Me!  Pick Me!
Umm....it's because of .... uhh... I got nothing... :)

No, wait!
Maybe it's because he has a development environment that runs on several
Unix environments and needs to have that same environment run on Windows
in order to build his product without having to re-write tons of scripts
and makefiles?  Oh, wait, that's just me...

...Did I just hi-jack this thread?  Oops!  Sorry!

> cgf

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Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
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