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On 10/27/06, Hugh Sasse <hgs / dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Isn't that what cygwin does for people?  It lets them deal with things
> as they are.  I don't use cygwin for writing code for Windows, apart
> from Ruby apps.  And Ruby, like Perl, has sufficient Unix heritage to
> make that more pleasant in cygwin, from my point of view.


At the risk of jumping in here again, I will :)

I agree completely with this. Ruby just feels more at home in a UNIX
environment, and Cygwin is a great way to provide this on Windows.

Cygwin's copy and paste issues are no different than VMWare's btw :)

So, does all the above make your choice NOT to use it wrong?  No.
> You use what works best for you.  That won't be the same choice for
> everyone else, though.


Absolutely.

It's the same debate of Mac vs PC, Windows vs. Linux, Coke and Pepsi, etc.

/sigh

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