Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001201102242.02112ed0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:27:43 -0500 To: "Dimitrie O. Paun" , "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Wine on Cygwin Cc: cygwin In-Reply-To: References: <3A26EDF1.147F5F04@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:01 PM 11/30/2000, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: >On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > > > Why would one want to run Wine on Cygwin which is itself running on what > > Wine is trying to emulate? > >For many reasons: > -- ease of development > -- get more developers (some have only Windows at work) > -- test Cygwin to its limits > -- ditto for Wine > -- it has a large neat factor :) > >-- >Dimi. Seems to me that getting user-mode Linux (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net) running on Cygwin would be another option that may fulfill many of the same goals without the confusing side-effects!;-) Just a thought and one that can be easily ignored.;-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com