[PATCH 00/39] Windows port, base and archival/

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sun May 23 22:50:41 UTC 2010


On Friday 21 May 2010 13:51:27 Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 21 May 2010 03:02:13 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so really you have no solution other than "Windows isnt supported".  if
> > you arent interested in working on something, then stop wasting people's
> > time.
> 
> 1) Thats a fairly context-free message.  Were you replying to me, or were
> you replying to Nguyen?  Were you replying to a specific message, or is
> this a general comment?

i snipped the irrelevant noise.  since your last e-mail had nothing useful to 
reply to, it was all snipped.  if you want context, generate something worth 
reading.

> 2) Cygwin works just fine last I checked, how is this not a solution?

with that logic, why does mingw exist at all i wonder

> 3) I _think_ what you're saying is if I'm not interested in writing or
> supporting Windows code I should stop working on BusyBox.

that's pretty illogical conclusion, but you're free to dream up whatever you 
like.  you seem inclined to do so.

> There is a case to be made that cygwin is bigger than it needs to be
> becuase it's full of gnu bloatware.  So of course your suggestion was to
> suck in gnu code to fashion a busybox-to-windows glue layer out of.  And
> you see no problem with this.

and again, perhaps you should actually understood how gnulib works and what i 
was proposing.  gnulib should be just about as thin as Nguyen's proposal, 
except that (1) we dont maintain it, (2) it has more fixes/portability than 
even Nguyen's work, (3) it need not be "sucked in".  it is, by design, a 
"generated" layer that only includes the code requested at that point in time, 
compiles/links only what is missing for the target host, and is then thrown 
away.  none of its sources would ever live in the busybox tree.
-mike
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