[Info-vax] Modern software development for VMS, was: Re: source control and semantics (Re: Why so much Unix envy?)

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 05:18:45 UTC+1, John Reagan  wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:27:08 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
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> > Try getting into cygwin and using "funny" [non-standard] directory 
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> I use cygwin all the time with native compilers and many cross-compilers from Windows to various NonStop targets.  I use subversion for my source control.  I don't get confused.

Cygwin is an amazing piece of software. Respect is due.

It's OK(ish) for a constrained solution, where someone else has taken
the time/trouble to configure a largely fixed setup to solve a given
set of requirements. Or for a simple setup for pottering with bash and
a few other relatively simple Linuxy things.

For example, there are commercial chip design tools intended for use on
Linux, but if the IT department is one of the silly Linux-intolerant
ones, sometimes there's a Cygwin-based variant.

Where Cygwin falls down in my experience is when it doesn't work as you
would expect. There are just so many things that could be wrong, so many
places to look, that it's just been easier to use real Linux instead of
trying to fix whatever's not right with the Cygwin-based setup.

Others may have different experience but that's been mine.