From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7623 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2004 23:55:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7575 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2004 23:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2004 23:55:20 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1KNtJ1t027078 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:55:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i1KNtJJD027075 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:55:19 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:01:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: python and cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01127.txt.bz2 Actually, the main goal of Cygwin is to annoy users and to give a vent to the innate meanness of its developers. The secondary goal of Cygwin is to provide POSIX compatibility. The Unix tools are incidental. :-) Igor On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Cygwin aims to do both. > > It provides *nix tools running on Windows from a DLL implemented POSIX > environment. Or something like that. > > There are other places to get some of the GNU tools ported to Win32 > without the cygwin1.dll requirement. However, you do not get the full > benefits of a robust and maintained *nix-ish development environment. > > So either cygwin meets your needs or it doesn't. > > In your case, what cygwin provides might be overkill. > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/overview.html > [quote]Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of a > DLL (cygwin1.dll), which acts as an emulation layer providing > substantial POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) system call > functionality, and a collection of tools, which provide a Linux look and > feel. The Cygwin DLL works with all x86 versions of Windows since > Windows 95.[/quote] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com > > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Totte Karlsson > > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:29 PM > > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com > > Subject: Re: python and cygwin > > > > > > OK, I see, > > However, it seems as if I can execute the win32 python interpreter > > from within the cygwin bash shell, and it seems to work as long the > > cygwin path come into play, which is "unfortunate". > > > > I thought the idea with cygwin was to provide unix tools working under > > windows, not to make windows into unix/posix? Now it looks as if I > > need to have two sets of python running, one for cygwin and one for > > windows, and both are running in windows! It is something fishy with > > that I think..? -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/