Re: v7.4 on Windows ... (Was: Re: v7.4 Beta 1 Bundle ...)

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 09:22, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > depends on what you mean by any. I believe that the standard tarball
> > will compile under windows, but to what extent it will actually run I
> > couldn't say.  This release is not intended for native use on windows
> > (that had to be pushed back to 7.5), though it will certainly run via
> > cygwin.
>
> Ummm ... will it compile?  I thought that the issue with the Windows
> native port was that it wouldn't yet ... something about fork() vs exec()
> that Bruce was working on?
>

Since it's always more fun to speculate than to wait for the proper
answer... I thought it would compile, but wouldn't actually run due to
exec/fork issues? Course that may have been someones development code
and not what got checked in I suppose...

Robert Treat
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