[clue-talk] Re: Linux auto-install DB and other stuff

[Matt Gushee]

Matt Gushee wrote:
> Greg Knaddison wrote:

>> If you want to do programming/compiling and cannot figure out the
>> related requirements in Cygwin's net-installer, you have more problems
>> than whatever OS you are on.
> 
> "Cannot figure out" is rather simplistic, don't you think? My point 
> about Cygwin
 > ... [bla bla bla] ...

Or maybe a better way to put it is: Cygwin is a means to an end, namely 
being able to use GNU software on Windows. GNU software is itself a 
means to various ends (unless you're Richard M. Stallman ;-). One of 
those, of course, is being able to develop portable C programs. Well, 
portable C programs are a means to an end, too. Sometimes there are much 
easier ways to accomplish those ends.

-- 
Matt Gushee
The Reluctant Geek: http://matt.gushee.net/rg/
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