points by ihnorton 11 years ago

Another ^nix -> Windows package system is the pacman port available in msys2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/

msys2 has an impressive package list [1] and is almost [2] an amazing solution for mixed-platform projects.

[1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages) [2] The one caveat is that it is still susceptible to the Cygwin BLODA problem whereby under certain conditions and software combinations, Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.

bitwize 11 years ago

And this is why I can't hate Microsoft. They've vastly improved over the past 20 years! Why, I remember when Windows became dangerously unstable when you did not properly release a GDI resource or passed the wrong things into RegisterClass...

  • jhasse 11 years ago

    What has Microsoft to do with MSYS2?

    • paulfurtado 11 years ago

      I think he was referring to this bit: > Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.