Re: Python recompile

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 23:03:22 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 13:13:07 -0800, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
 

On 3/8/2025 10:15 AM, bart wrote: 

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'MinGW' supposedly 'Minimalist Gnu on Windows'. In that case I
wouldn't like to see the full-scale one.. 

 
cygwin is okay, well it's been a while since I used it... :^)
 
https://www.cygwin.com 

 
Cygwin is clever. They managed to get poll/select working on pipes,
which is something Microsoft still cannot manage on native Windows.

cygwin is very slow. And user interface is significantly inferior
relatively to msys2/mingw64. Or at least it was in 2018 which happens
to be the version of cygwin that I am using regularly as part of
Altera/Intel Nios2 SDK.
For me the speed and UI convinience are far more important than better
emulation of obscure POSIX features which is probably important only
for programs that I would not want to run regardless.
Also installation of packages on cygwin appear to be far more tricky
than on msys2, where package manager (pacman) mostly works.