From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19208 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2014 23:35:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 19195 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jun 2014 23:35:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtpback.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtpback.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtpback.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:35:10 +0000 Received: from [91.76.98.252] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WshBX-0004B7-99; Fri, 06 Jun 2014 03:35:03 +0400 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:23:24 -0000 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:35:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1352292014.20140606032324@yandex.ru> To: Warren Young , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin on Max OS X ? In-Reply-To: <539089CC.7030502@etr-usa.com> References: <648160868.20140605183532@yandex.ru> <539089CC.7030502@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 Greetings, Warren Young! >> make sure the tools you are using are >> available for Cygwin in the same (or compatible enough) form. > OS X is closest to the BSDs in terms of userland and kernel APIs, > whereas Cygwin mostly emulates Linux, except where Win32 leaks through. > There are plenty of differences between them that can justify testing > under both environments: > - vast dynamic linkage, networking, and ACL/EA differences > - /Users, /System, /Library vs /home, /sbin, /lib > - BSD find, locate, etc. vs GNU findutils > - bsdtar vs GNU tar > - no /proc in OS X > - /dev/clipboard vs pbcopy/pbpaste > - strace vs dtrace > - /etc files, SAM and AD vs Open Directory > - launchd vs Windows Services I kind of know that. Had a Mac for short of a year myself, and used and exploited it thoroughly. I think, the real question could only be answered by the OP himself: What actually you are doing, what parts of the system your scripts are touching, etc. I know what I write (that has to be cross-platform) is easily portable, because it is pretty self-contained, not touching the system core in any way. At least, it works transparently on Mac/Linux/Win with no changes to the core functionality, even if sometimes need a bit of pre-configuration to adapt to the specific user's locations and such. But this would be true for many projects. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.06.2014, <03:17> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple