FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

OK...well, I didn't explictly add any Cygwin support, I just used it to find
portability problems, and fixed them.  These fixes may or may not be
applicable to any other system (one of the fixes has already proved itself
useful for Mac OS X as well).

The changes I made are not of a nature that they are likely to be
"forgotten".  Mostly it involved "doing the right thing" instead of "doing
what most UNIX systems will allow us to get away with."  So, we are on
pretty safe ground here, and it isn't likely that anyone will
(intentionally) undo these changes.

We may inadvertantly introduce other portability problems, that may or may
not affect cygwin.  But I'm sure people will pipe up and let us know if we
have broken something, and it will get fixed then.  So, there's nothing to
worry about for now.

Cheers,
--nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Sven Köhler [mailto:skoehler AT upb.de]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:05 PM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Re: CygWin


> I'm just trying to figure out why Sven was asking us to keep cygwin
> support...when I thought I had just added it.  I can't imagine why I would
> add support for something and then suddenly remove it (as I thought he was
> implying somebody might do intentionally).  No hostility was intentionally
> directed at Sven, I'm just genuinely confused and perhaps a little
disturbed
> by his question.

you might add cygwin-support in this version, but might forget it in 
future releases. I don't know, if you are using it at all, or if it's 
just a friend of yours, that tested FreeTDS on cygwin.
testing a release on cygwin-compatibility is not easy for a guy who only 
has a linux-machine.

in addition, i don't know many apps, that compile under cygwin with no 
modifications. cygwin is sometimes disliked.
i.e. the team behind GnuPG denied any patch which would improve 
cygwin-support, but the native win32-build was _very_ old.


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