From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27849 invoked by alias); 22 May 2006 20:46:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27834 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2006 20:46:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-19.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 May 2006 20:46:37 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 398B713C01F; Mon, 22 May 2006 16:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:46:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin Message-ID: <20060522204634.GG18999@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <85a409ca0605211622q7acb3708v897b20652c7c31d0@mail.gmail.com> <003201c67d67$c70d9f20$1e10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> <20060522140033.GA17013@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00301.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:47:07PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:20:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: >>>I recently evaluated Microsoft Services for Unix (SFU), which aims to >>>... >>>... >>>I hope to evaluate UWIN soon. >> >>Please don't discuss other, competing products here. > >Can we discuss how their inferiorities caused us to move (back) to >Cygwin? ;-) I don't see much point in doing so. Those kind of discussions always devolve to "Huh. U/WIN doesn't even do named pipes!" "Oh, yes it does! You just have to add the named pipes option in the registry!" "I tried that!" "What version of U/WIN do you have?", etc. cgf