Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> On 11 May 2002 20:17:08 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:
> > Please don't be so hard with Windows. I have yet to find my XP box to
> > crash... And yes I'm pushing it a lot :) Windows 2000/XP are very stable.
> 
> But oh so cumbersome compared to Linux when doing development. In
> windows you *need* an IDE, in Linux you can do most of these things in
> other ways.

This is just plain false. I do deveopment in both Linux and Windows (lot more
on Windows than on Linux) and I have (as other peoples have said here too) the
exact same environment. EMACS, GNAT, Cygwin, cvs, VM, GNUS...

I would say that it is a easier to develop on Linux, but nothing seems so
cumbersome on Windows. It was cumbersome on Win9x with old version of Cygwin
because the CRLF handling was not properly done. These days this is not true
and again Windows 2000/XP are very reliable.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not paid by Microsoft :), just that I find the Windows
OS moving to the right direction... And looking at MacOSX I start thinking
that this could be the right OS for everything: developement because it is
based on BSD -not need for Cygwin-, and office work as the full set of
Microsoft Office toolset has been ported.

Pascal.

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