Trey said:
Jonathan Aquino said the following on 4/17/2004 10:20 AM:
The GNUWin project looks similar to the GNUWin32 project. I wonder how
many projects like this there are. GNUWin32 also develops many
excellent tools that have been ported from Unix/Linux to Windows.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
GNUWin32 is a port for Windows of some utilities from the Open Source
world as you can see here from this page -
(
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/summary.html)
They are mostly cli programs or libraries. There intention as I see is
creating a Unix enviroment in Windows.
"The GnuWin32 project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools
with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is
they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits
MS-Windows operating system, such as MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT/ 2000
/ XP. Native ports do not rely on some kind of Unix emulation, such as
CygWin or Msys, so that there is no need to install additional emulation
libraries. At present, all developments have been done under MS-Windows
98 and XP, using the Mingw port of the GNU C and C++ (GCC) compilers.
The packages that have been ported, fall into four broad categories:
* GNU utilities: bc, bison, compface, cpio, diffutils, ed,
fileutils, findutils, flex, gawk, gdbm, gcal, gettext, gpref, grep,
groff, gsl, gzip, help2man, iconv, jwhois, less, m4, miscfiles, patch,
regex, rx, sed, sharutils, sh-utils, tar, texinfo, textutils, tree,
wget, which
* Archivers and compressors: arc, arj, bzip2, lha, lzo / lzop, ucl
/ upx, unzip / zip, zlib
* Other utilities: byacc, cygutils, file, gsar, ntfsprogs, pcre,
popt, rpl, sgrep
* Graphics packages: gd, jpeg, jbigkit, liburt, libungif, libpng,
libwmf, netpbm, tiff, xpm
* Textprocessing- and postscript-related packages: a2ps, barcode,
bm2font, deroff, dvidj, enscript, freetype, grap, gri, groff, indent,
libxml, pdflib, plotutils, polyglotman, psutils, scribe2latex,
src-highlite, t1lib, t1utils, troff2latex, ttf2pt1, xpdf"
GNUWin is a compilation of Open Source programs for Windows as you can
see in this page -
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/en/bestlist.html
This are big applications and have a GUI. Some of them don't even have a
port for Linux.
You can see their goals in here
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/project/index.html. In the same page in the
bottom they have a list of projects with the same objectives.
GNUWin32 and GNUWin are not really close either in there objectives nor
results.
dM
