From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Size? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:25:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010301162826.00b5e9d0@mail.larwe.com> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20010301133508.00b08cd0@pop.phnx.qwest.net> <3A9EB5FA.DE7FCC38@redhat.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010301161636.00bb2280@mail.larwe.com> <3A9EBF24.F67974F2@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00032.html > > Now, if only it was possible to get thumb tools working in Windows... or > >Actually there's a good chance that most of your problems are specifically >due to the fact it's Windows 98 specifically. We've often had problems with >that and don't support it. This laptop came bundled with NTWS4/Win2k user-select OS, but of course I had to format that off. Seriously, meant as a constructive piece of user feedback, I think it would be wonderful if RH could look at the issue(s) surrounding Windows 9x. I guarantee that I am not the only embedded developer facing this type of issue. I'm actually a little puzzled by RH's choice to go down the *NIX-emulation-layer route. It seems to me that it would have been much easier to build a set of tools that run as native Win32 applications. This would avoid a host of weird line termination issues, having to run inside a special environment, etc. I mean, compilers are pretty much the easiest software in the world to port... I'd be curious to know the thinking behind wrapping it all in cygwin. === Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer) Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/ Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/ "Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein, Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."