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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
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- Subject: Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
- From: "Alain Magloire" <alain at qnx dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:56:08 -0500 (EST)
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>
> > Why? On a U/WIN host the Uwin library is a system library (because U/WIN is the
> > system), and the GPL allows linking with proprietary system libraries.
>
> A user of U/WIN would be puzzled at the concept "a U/WIN host".
> Furthermore when a GPLed application is built for U/WIN, the result
> is not "a U/WIN application"; it is a Windows application, and can
> be used in the normal Windows environment and not just the U/WIN
> environment (ksh).
>
> U/WIN is marketed as a package that runs on Windows systems that brings
> extra functionality to WIN32 applications. I challenge anyone to find
> anything on
>
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
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> that implies in any way that U/WIN is an OS.
Is not U/Win in the same category as CygWin ? Or DJGPP for that matter ?
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au revoir, alain
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