Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows & Visual Studio 6.0

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Jim.Hyslop wrote:

| Jim Meyering wrote:
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|> Is it an option to use a more modern/POSIX-compliant development
|> environment on Windows?  I know that Cygwin now has fchdir and it
|> looks like MKS has support for it, too.
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|> If you opt to continue using Visual Studio 6 in spite of this, it
|> must have some important redeeming features.
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| The problem with the cygwin build is that it requires Cygwin.dll as
| well. The MSVC build stands alone, not requiring any external DLLs.
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| I don't think it is reasonable to require all Windows users to
| download and install Cygwin just to run CVS.


I'm afraid I have to agree with Jim Hyslop.  Whatever Microsoft's
flaws, I still believe that some of our mutual user base is at least
relatively innocent and should still be catered to.

Regards,

Derek

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