Opened 3 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
#1782 closed task (wontfix)
Reduce number of Windows configurations by removing Cygwin support
Reported by: | felix winkelmann | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | 5.4 |
Component: | build system | Version: | 5.2.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Estimated difficulty: | easy |
Description
There are a confusing number of different build configurations on Windows that cause us nothing but pain, influencing build style, directory separators, shell quoting and egg scripts. This number must be reduced. One first step would be to drop Cygwin support, as WSL makes it somewhat obsolete.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by
Milestone: | someday → 5.4 |
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comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by
comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by
Resolution: | → wontfix |
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Status: | new → closed |
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There are a few reasons why WSL does not replace Cygwin, roughly in decreasing order of importance to me: