From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30955 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2004 01:45:38 -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 30948 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2004 01:45:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 01:45:38 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuMD3-0006nL-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:45:37 +0100 Received: from 207.158.40.25 ([207.158.40.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 01:45:37 2004 Received: from tkarlsson by 207.158.40.25 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 01:45:37 2004 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Totte Karlsson" Subject: Re: python and cygwin Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net> <1amf6c54ignfm.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Reply-To: "Totte Karlsson" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.158.40.25 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01136.txt.bz2 I guess the problem is, as I see it, if cygwin was the "perfect" unix tool running under windows, it would integrate with existing windows tools. It does that to some extent, but not fully and that is the problem. If I want a pure unix environment, on the other hand, then I would use the real stuff, such as Linux or qnx on which I do most of my work... but nothing is perfect as we know.. When I open up a "cygwin-bash" on windows, I just thought that I could use my already installed "win-32" python. I realize now that you can't and I think that creates problems. As a programmer I don't like do have to duplicate things. I only want one "repository". > > and both are running in windows! > > No, one runs in Windows and the other one under Cygwin. You can always > run the Cygwin binaries from Windows (ls, d, etc. work for me in a > Windows cmd.exe console window). Many Windows binaries work *directly* > in Cygwin bash or zsh (also much slower, so it's wise to execute them > in a cmd subshell). > It sounds as if you are talking about cygwin as an operating system, on which you can run cygwin applications. Sounds weird, they are all running on windows as far as I can see.. at least on my machine. cheers /tk -- 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/