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Subject: Comments on switching to the Cygnus development system - DN [1]

"Tom Hutto" <thutto@ibm.net> - 27 Apr 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Brent tells me that Scriptics is considering switching compilers.  They
 intend to migrate from VC++ to the Cygnus tool set available at
 http://www.cygnus.com,

 The best part is that it's not Microsoft and it's free.  The bad part is
 that 1)it's a UNIX/POSIX like environment, 2) several non-POSIX hacks are
 present, 3)documentation is sparse to non-existent -- they have no 'man'
 capability and no 'info' capability so how the heck can we read their
 published man pages?

 I think the only solution to the development system problem is to start
 writing specifications explaining how to build TCL/TK in sufficient detail
 that competent programmer can write a makefile for any compiler/linker
 combo.