Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?

> Yeah,
>
> That is pretty much the short of it. My greatest concern undertaking an
> effort like this is the resultant #ifdef/#else/#endif mess that I will need
> to make of the code. We do a lot of cross-platform development here and
> ultimately the code begins to look very ugly to anything except a
> preprocessor. The alternative is to put most of the nt-specific code in
> separate files, but then we would have to merge over the newer code from the
> CVS repository. It is not a job that I look forward to, but our unix
> customers are clamoring for PostGRE on the backend and our non-unix
> customers are not going to be satisfied with MySQL. Sucks to be me, I
> guess.

But why re-invent all the work CygWin does? Why not use something that
is modular, tested, and free?

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