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-_- as a developer force to support windows apps built on mingw,
please don't say that.
If lua ever stopped being buildable for that target it'd be a nightmare.

~
Doug.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:06 PM, steve donovan
> <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:
>>> Seriously, bmake can be compiled on Cygwin and Interix.
>>> So, it is definitely available on Windows.
>>
>> True, it's amazing how close you (as a developer) can get Windows to
>> look like Unix.
>
> In the middle 90th I was a Windows user, so, I can feel the pain.
> But I believe that UNIX tools ported to Windows (cygwin and interix)
> gives Windows developers A LOT of power. So, it makes sense for them
> to learn UNIX tools once and use them for years. IMHO mingw is not relevant.
>