Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor)

["Juergen Pfeifer" <nospam@nospam.org>]

If you want to look Windows more like Unix and want to port Software more
easily to a Win2K environment, then you should perhaps wait until Windows
Services for Unix V 3.0 will be released. This contains a full blown Unix
subsystem on top of the NT microkernel, so this runs parallel to Win32 and
not on top of it as some kind of emulation layer (this has been formerly
known as Interix, but the new version is a reasonable improvement over the
last version). This is not free but is a product, but its quite affordable.
This "Microsoft Unix" is state of the art and has shared libs, a lot of GNU
software on it and much more.

Juergen

"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:<un0wacgxh.fsf@wanadoo.fr>...
> > Well, I also use a lot Ada, but to build GCC/GNAT, GDB, Emacs, CVS
(pserver),
> > gpg, AWS, GLADE, AdaSockets, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, GDBM... you really need
to have
> > a UNIX like environment. Or you need to port the software to avoid using
> > GNU/configure, GNU/automake or GNU/autoconf tools or whatever UNIX
oriented
> > part that just does not work on Windows.
>
> Ahhh. That's probably the source of the confusion right there. The
> first thing I do with a new Windows box is install Emacs and cygwin.
> Since my 4 previous boxes were 4 different shades of proprietary Unix,
> this happens to exactly match the first steps I did with any of them
> (install Emacs, gcc, gnumake, and friends). Since I generally can find
> binary distributions for Windows rather than have to build everything
> from sources, setup is actually quite a bit *easier* for Windows than
> it has been in the past for Unix boxes. :-)
>
> So essentially I have a Unix box that happens to use Windows as the
> window manager. It crashes way more than a typical Unix box, but it
> plays way more games too. Fair trade in my book. :-)
>
>
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