Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 01:26:26 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <20250309012626.00001276@yahoo.com>
References: <vq1qas$j22$1@gallifrey.nk.ca>
	<vq3oag$18iv6$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq4hf2$1brf7$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq4l3d$1ck9e$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq4m0u$1ctpn$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq4n05$1d5dv$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq4om7$1dbo2$2@dont-email.me>
	<vq6dqh$1pskk$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq6f8p$1pmnk$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq6gqc$1qcp8$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq6ips$1pmnk$2@dont-email.me>
	<vq6j5h$1qosf$1@dont-email.me>
	<20250304092827.708@kylheku.com>
	<vq7g1p$1vmg5$1@dont-email.me>
	<vq94dt$2boso$1@dont-email.me>
	<vqcsk7$23bfo$1@paganini.bofh.team>
	<vqefn1$3flpt$1@dont-email.me>
	<vqeu5c$3imil$1@dont-email.me>
	<vqeun4$3iqbq$1@dont-email.me>
	<vqfcbe$3lkkc$1@dont-email.me>
	<871pv861ht.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
	<20250308192940.00001351@yahoo.com>
	<vqi1ge$8jg8$1@dont-email.me>
	<vqibt3$ahu0$3@dont-email.me>
	<vqiibq$bq1o$7@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:26:31 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c94739d99ac307399ad3479d99371535";
	logging-data="398800"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192vKQzaWq2xvPWDE4vneoJedKK2KS7INY="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzdzfJQvx+V0e/0OGVr7WMFpnGc=
X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.34; x86_64-w64-mingw32)
Bytes: 2896

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 23:03:22 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:13:07 -0800, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> 
> > On 3/8/2025 10:15 AM, bart wrote:  
> >>
> >> 'MinGW' supposedly 'Minimalist Gnu on Windows'. In that case I
> >> wouldn't like to see the full-scale one..  
> > 
> > cygwin is okay, well it's been a while since I used it... :^)
> > 
> > https://www.cygwin.com  
> 
> Cygwin is clever. They managed to get poll/select working on pipes,
> which is something Microsoft still cannot manage on native Windows.

cygwin is very slow. And user interface is significantly inferior
relatively to msys2/mingw64. Or at least it was in 2018 which happens
to be the version of cygwin that I am using regularly as part of
Altera/Intel Nios2 SDK.
For me the speed and UI convinience are far more important than better
emulation of obscure POSIX features which is probably important only
for programs that I would not want to run regardless.
Also installation of packages on cygwin appear to be far more tricky
than on msys2, where package manager (pacman) mostly works.