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[bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0
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Frank Hemer |
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[bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0 |
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:52:17 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:37, Derek Price wrote:
> Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> | Jim Meyering wrote:
> |> Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development
> |> environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it
> |> looks like MKS has support for it, too.
> |>
> |>
> |> If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it
> |> must have some important redeeming features.
> |
> | The problem with the cygwin build is that it requires Cygwin.dll as
> | well. The MSVC build stands alone, not requiring any external DLLs.
> |
> |
> | I don't think it is reasonable to require all Windows users to
> | download and install Cygwin just to run CVS.
>
> I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's
> flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least
> relatively innocent and should still be catered to.
I agree with this.
Even though I'm not an ms disciple, I know quite some users that would be
affected ...
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- [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim.Hyslop, 2005/03/09
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Derek Price, 2005/03/08
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/08
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Derek Price, 2005/03/08
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/09
- [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/09
- [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
- [bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/10
- [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
[bug-gnulib] Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0,
Frank Hemer <=
Re: [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, James Youngman, 2005/03/09