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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Nicol wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2007 2:44 PM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Were are the djgpp users? If you think VMS is hard, try djgpp. :) I
> > gave up, and sticked to Cugwin.
>
> or interix for that matter. if MS opened interix instead of simply
> EOLing it that would be a good thing. Somebody convince someone in a
> position to make that happen that would be a good thing please?
I don't think it has been EOLed, it has just been renamed *again*:
Interix
-> Services for Unix (SFU)
-> Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA)
SUA is included in Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate and will also
be part of Longhorn Server, AFAICT.
As to "opening" it, you may be up to something:
Utilities and Software Development Kit (SDK) for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B4987E6-D960-49A2-BF52-D3FBD654254C&displaylang=en
I hadn't seen this before, Microsoft is now shipping GNU software
under GPL and LGPL. Who would have thought...
The download page for the latest version of the SDK no longer contains explicit
references to the GPL, but from the descript it sounds like the GNU tools are
still included:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93ff2201-325e-487f-a398-efde5758c47f&displaylang=en
Oh, and to make this not completely off-topic, they are including
"UNIX Perl" too. I wonder if that is any better than "Windows Perl". :)
Cheers,
-Jan
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