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Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0
From: |
Derek Price |
Subject: |
Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0 |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:37:15 -0500 |
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Jim.Hyslop wrote:
| Jim Meyering wrote:
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|> Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development
|> environment on Windows? I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it
|> looks like MKS has support for it, too.
|
|
|> If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it
|> must have some important redeeming features.
|
|
| The problem with the cygwin build is that it requires Cygwin.dll as
| well. The MSVC build stands alone, not requiring any external DLLs.
|
|
| I don't think it is reasonable to require all Windows users to
| download and install Cygwin just to run CVS.
I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop. Whatever Microsoft's
flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least
relatively innocent and should still be catered to.
Regards,
Derek
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- GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/08
- RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim.Hyslop, 2005/03/08
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0,
Derek Price <=
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Frank Hemer, 2005/03/08
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/08
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Derek Price, 2005/03/08
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/09
- RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/09
- RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
- Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/10
- RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, Conrad T. Pino, 2005/03/09
Re: [bug-gnulib] RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0, James Youngman, 2005/03/10