Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> 
> > 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/
> 
> 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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