Re: Wish to give up my Cygwin maintainer position

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Pedro Kröger wrote:
> Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > > Bertalan: I'd apreciate if you could give me a few pointers of how you
> > > have done things, just to easy things for me.
>
>
> thanks for your help. I'm building a windows-98 cygwin devel box using
> qemu (easier for me so I don't have to be dual booting). I'll continue
> to look into the cross-compilation stuff but I think that it'll be
> easier and faster if I have a windows environment now.

Just my 2 cents: we have discovered that windows 98 (and cousins 95 and 
ME) is complete and utter crap. It's hard to run anything reliably, let 
alone use it to build things reliably. I recommend to get an XP box for 
this.

The nice thing about Cygwin is that you can run an SSH server. This 
means that you can just ssh into the box, and use the unix command line 
for all maintenance work.
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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen