Re: what is the best Windows distribution?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

end-users are not the target audience. MinGW isn't--

>         afaik WO and YellowBox have been brought to Windows by using cygwin
>
>         --
That is correct. Cygwin is older than MinGW. If you notice, you can 
still install "MinGW"  libraries inside Cygwin. One derives from the 
other. When YB was born, Cygwin was the only beast around. Furthermore, 
it is much easier to port application using cygwin.

Also, all this talk about "cygwin not being for the end user" is 
incorrect. It may be in the roughest DIY form. But there are many 
commercial applications that ship and install with it under the hood and 
the user just needs to click an icon to open his app. Let's not spread 
too much FUD. Gene Amdahl moments may be useful, but shall not be the norm.

Of course, currently GNUstep is not targeted to those environments so 
you need some of homework. But this does not mean that one can build a 
professional package with it and ship a commercial product both with 
cygwin and mingw. it is possible and it was done in the past.


Riccardo