[ic] Bugs ?

utomo interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Fri Jun 8 04:15:00 2001


> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:42:38 -0400
> From: Jason Kohles <jkohles@redhat.com>
> To: interchange-users@developer.akopia.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Bugs ?
> Reply-To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
>
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:07:24PM +0700, utomo wrote:
> > I just found (but not look yet):
> > The Cygwin project consists in porting the GNU tools and utilities for
> > Windows 95, 98, and NT. The Cygwin library provides a UNIX-like
> API on top
> > of the Win32 API.
> > If you need more information , you can go to the cygwin site :
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> > Or I just remember wine, is that working Interchange+Wine+Win?.
> >
> Cygwin is (primarily) a compiler, since Interchange is written in perl
> you don't really need a compiler to install it.  The fact is it would
> probably be trivial to get Interchange running on windows since you can
> get Perl for windows
> (http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/)
> and apache for windows
> (http://www.apache.org/docs-2.0/platform/windows.html), I just don't
> know of anyone that has ever tried it.  Wine is completely backwards
> from what you want, it lets you run windows applications under linux.
> Maybe if I get bored in my copious free time I'll try it someday, but if
> you really want Interchange for windows you have basically two options.
> 1) port it yourself
> 2) hire someone to port it for you
>

Thanks Jason for your explanation/info.
Sorry I am Wrong about Cygwin and Interchange, and forget about Wine
function :(

Actually I did not need Interchange for Win because My Server using Linux,
meanwhile my PC still using Win 98

Best Regards,

Utomo