From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-12 01:30:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!freenix!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Date: 12 May 2002 10:30:45 +0200 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-103-1-3-4.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 1021192255 18698 217.128.47.4 (12 May 2002 08:30:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2002 08:30:55 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23918 Date: 2002-05-12T08:30:55+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595