Re: Cygnus support

[Torsten Bögershausen <torsten.bogershausen@esss.se>]

Hej,


From my experience cygwin has some advantages over native Windows,
like scripts, Perl, POSIX path names, long path names, xemacs..

Are there any chances to give us an overview, which problems, troubles, .. ?

That could ease the motivation for a decision, whichever that would be.

/Torsten




On 30/04/15 10:02, Ralph Lange wrote:
> Hm .... here's a proposal:
>
> As supporting the Cygnus/Windows target architecture causes never-ending
> trouble and uses significantly more than average resources, I would propose
> attempting to drop cygwin support from EPICS Base.
>
> We have well-working support for Linux and native Windows, and IMHO cygwin was
> after all a bridge solution until virtualization arrived on the Windows
> platform. It seems not just being a moving target, but the wrong target in the
> end.
>
> Should we send out a message on tech-talk, asking if there are actually any
> EPICS on Cygwin users left?
>
> Cheers,
> ~Ralph