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• Happy w/ cygwin here (Score:2)

  by AndyArmstrong (7200)

  It's happily coexisting with cygwin on a Windows VM here - unless there's some subtle problem I've missed.

  What kind of problems would you expect?
  • Re:Happy w/ cygwin here (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735) on 2008.01.07 18:41 (#60038) Homepage Journal

    The main problems with co-existance are due to things like PATH entries resolving to one or the other.
    
    Also, someone reported problems where Strawberry sets TERM to 'dumb' and this changes a behaviour in cygwin.

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    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AndyArmstrong (7200)

      Ah - I have Strawberry before cygwin in the path and haven't used cygwin much since installing Strawb so I've maybe missed some borkage there.
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by dagolden (6584)

        A few references on the (minor) issues with multiple Perls installed:

        • Parrallel [sic] installation of ActivePerl 5.8, Strawberry and ActivePerl 5.10 [perlmonks.org]
        • RT#31999 Under cygwin, cygwin's 'cpan' is used instead of Strawberry's 'cpan.bat' [cpan.org]

        -- dagolden
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Alias (5735)

        BTW, some of the problems mentioned can be fixed with relatively subtle (but involving a fair amount of coding) changes to the way we do installation and such... we'll look into them for future releases.