[Insight-developers] Will ITK4 support cygwin?

[Hans Johnson]

I've just made a bug tracker issue to track the status of this.  If anyone
has comments about what should be done in order to move forward with
removing conditional compiles for support of cygwin, please add push the
discussion to this bug:

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11659

Hans

On 1/4/11 6:17 PM, "Hans Johnson" <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> I think that the most important thing to do is to add it to the wiki page of
> ITKv4 that the current non-posix compliant version of cygwin will not be
> supported by ITKv4.
> 
> Since there is not dashboard, and ITKv4 is not public yet, that would
> indicate that none of the ITKv4 developers are using it.
> 
> I don't think that a public announcement is needed at this point.  It should
> be mentioned in the official ITKv4 release notes.
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/4/11 6:04 PM, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hans,
>> 
>> Should we officially announce this? Bill can probably help with the wording,
>> 
>> Bil
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Hans Johnson <hans-johnson at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>>> I'd agree with this.
>>> 
>>> Hans
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1/4/11 4:24 PM, "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 1/4/2011 4:25 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We do not have any dashboards for cygwin. Is this a supported platform?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Personally, I use mingw for a gcc compiler on windows. In my opinion,
>>>>> cygwin is bloated and slow. There are cmake distribution issues with
>>>>> cygwin (that's a long story with a long email trail on the cmake
>>>>> mailing list). But, in the past, we had a cygwin nightly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In Code/* there are 24 instances of #if's that reference cygwin (as a
>>>>> comparison, there are 19 #if's that reference my old pal Borland).
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I would say that we should remove specific support for cygwin.  Once
>>>> cygwin reaches its goal of being a posix system, then itk should work
>>>> with no if cygwin stuff at all.   The next cygwin release of CMake will
>>>> treat the platform like posix.
>>>> 
>>>> -Bill
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