From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 78293 invoked by alias); 20 May 2019 14:16:54 -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 78287 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2019 14:16:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=currency, maintaining, HX-Languages-Length:726, our X-HELO: mail-wr1-f43.google.com Received: from mail-wr1-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wr1-f43.google.com) (209.85.221.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 May 2019 14:16:53 +0000 Received: by mail-wr1-f43.google.com with SMTP id r7so14772921wrr.13 for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 07:16:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=bD+dO1X2fZNUEYZlyHgVpE1mXVu7YQ6eT8ks4RBPyjA=; b=o07Kktzd54A1u2WN9TJn4sVJAq/PIMUZP/30iLura6aMSptl6zV6f4zp4WCThSFZ/N e7rFh5KZ4arWwXA/palVAW6DZS8kGblQZZYvEBrZmhaJUaHWJ97F+LwDIVtmlmv00Pey 9uuMQYY9opl1hGRTnu0qRQjGbunmDtLunSqCthMa8tiIFAaTPm8GCskoTovy0AclgfvE JyG1jPcVxbi0EwwQbGwO/aUy1XHO/LHlXGOWBfUGY+kqKj4/tueC10ivcyStenFf6gT8 ElApPrKmonrJbKqLrQeC5C4/0JZY7Ac9/HrmUapHOnF7FiVhA6GSlUKFShh98ErbKajq Ms0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Erik Soderquist Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 14:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one? To: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2019-05/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:44 PM Bob Cochran wrote: > "Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered a > (pre)historic solution." The words of the ignorant, in my opinion. Cygwin has done an excellent job of maintaining currency and usefulness. > I would appreciate any feedback on our use of Cygwin for building & > running OpenOCD: https://mindchasers.com/dev/openocd-darsena-windows I think the most important key question to ask is: does it work well for you and your use case? > If fellow Cygwin users think it's a poor use case, then we'll pull the > article. If it works well, I think it is a good use case. -- Erik -- 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