From: "Alain Magloire" <alain@qnx.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101092056.PAA24663@qnx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101092056.MAA09350@racerx.synopsys.com>
>
>
> > Why? On a U/WIN host the Uwin library is a system library (because U/WIN is the
> > system), and the GPL allows linking with proprietary system libraries.
>
> A user of U/WIN would be puzzled at the concept "a U/WIN host".
> Furthermore when a GPLed application is built for U/WIN, the result
> is not "a U/WIN application"; it is a Windows application, and can
> be used in the normal Windows environment and not just the U/WIN
> environment (ksh).
>
> U/WIN is marketed as a package that runs on Windows systems that brings
> extra functionality to WIN32 applications. I challenge anyone to find
> anything on
>
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
>
> that implies in any way that U/WIN is an OS.
Is not U/Win in the same category as CygWin ? Or DJGPP for that matter ?
--
au revoir, alain
----
Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on n'est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-09 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 0:32 Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 1:14 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-01-09 10:00 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 3:33 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 10:03 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 10:37 ` Mumit Khan
2001-01-09 10:47 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 11:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-01-09 11:18 ` Jeffrey A Law
2001-01-09 12:36 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-09 14:46 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-01-09 15:38 ` Mark Mitchell
[not found] ` <mailpost.979083538.10676@postal.sibyte.com>
2001-01-09 16:23 ` Chris G. Demetriou
2001-01-09 17:05 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 21:11 ` Mumit Khan
2001-01-10 2:10 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-01-10 7:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-01-09 17:51 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-09 22:33 ` Richard Stallman
2001-01-09 12:57 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-09 13:12 ` Alain Magloire [this message]
2001-01-09 13:21 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-09 22:24 ` Laurynas Biveinis
2001-01-09 3:52 ` Michael Widenius
2001-01-09 9:07 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-01-09 10:06 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-09 10:24 ` Jeffrey A Law
2001-01-09 2:15 David Korn
2001-01-09 2:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-01-09 2:37 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
2001-01-09 2:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2001-01-09 3:55 dewar
2001-01-09 4:09 Axel Kittenberger
2001-01-09 5:00 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-09 5:16 dewar
2001-01-09 5:43 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
2001-01-09 5:39 dewar
2001-01-09 5:50 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
2001-01-09 6:03 dewar
2001-01-09 9:34 Axel Kittenberger
2001-01-09 11:31 dewar
2001-01-09 14:00 dewar
2001-01-10 7:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-01-10 8:49 ` Joe Buck
2001-01-10 7:43 dewar
2001-01-10 11:18 ` Chris Faylor
2001-01-10 13:15 ` Geoff Keating
2001-01-10 7:43 dewar
2001-01-10 8:52 dewar
2001-01-10 8:53 dewar
2001-01-10 12:13 dewar
2001-01-10 15:30 ` Chris Faylor
2001-01-10 13:29 dewar
2001-01-10 13:32 dewar
2001-01-10 15:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-01-10 15:23 dewar
2001-01-10 15:44 dewar
2001-01-10 15:45 dewar
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