> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Thomas [mailto:miketh at ptmnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:24 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [Win32] VM Update for 2.7/2.8
> 
> 
> Please also try and minimise dependency on the Cygwin library 
> and associated
> tools, particularly Bash, as they are unstable on Win 98 even 
> with B20.1 and
> Mumit Khan's latest updates.  I myself prefer VC++ even 
> though I support the
> general principles behind open source and GNU.  Hopefully 
> you'll be able to
> use mingw under a standard DOS/Windows shell to do the build.

Unstable in what way?  I've been using all the cygnus tools (including bash)
on Win95, NT4.0 and now Windows 2000 with no problems. (for the last 3
years).
I would much prefer a cygnus/bash setup to any dos approach...  (Of course
I'm a long standing Unix bigot, so apply necessary filters).