| 16 Nov 2025 |
 @corngood:corngood.com | At least you can have separate cygwin installs that have their own process namespaces and stuff. Certainly nothing secure though. | 18:01:01 |
 Janne | I bet @simon.hauser:helsinki-systems.de would love porting the PSI thingies to the windows equivalent | 18:02:42 |
 eveeifyeve | Do you want me to look into that? | 19:01:11 |
| 17 Nov 2025 |
 John Ericson | I am catching up on this conversation now Corngood | 17:43:39 |
| John Ericson | (and eveeifyeve ) | 17:43:51 |
| John Ericson | K900: you can weigh in of course, but we've had a lot of conversations with @emilylazy and Alyssa Ross about how Cygwin is the last disruptive way to try to get Windows support going | 17:45:42 |
| John Ericson | * K900: you can weigh in of course, but we've had a lot of conversations with @emilylazy and Alyssa Ross about how Cygwin is the last disruptive way to try to get Windows support going in Nixpkgs | 17:45:49 |
| John Ericson | (least disruptive to Nixpkgs) | 17:45:52 |
| John Ericson | I would like for MinGW and LLVM in MSVC-ABI-compat mode to obviate the need for Cygwin longer term for many tasks, but I don't want to block Windows support on "first we have to rewrite stdenv and all the bash" | 17:46:48 |
| John Ericson | Indeed, after first I was excited contemplating switching from bash, etc., but Emily and Alyssa convinced me that was irresponsible, and we have to take small steps | 17:47:27 |
| John Ericson | So the conversation we have there should at least acknowledge the Corngood has received lots of feedback so far that his approach is a good first incremental step, and he's come here to ask about tarballs now because he has made amazing progress far faster than I, at least, I thought was going to happen on the basis of basically 1 person's effort | 17:48:26 |
| John Ericson | * So the conversation we have there should at least acknowledge the Corngood has received lots of feedback so far that his approach is a good first incremental step, and he's come here to ask about tarballs now because he has made amazing progress far faster than I, at least, thought was going to happen on the basis of basically 1 person's effort | 17:49:28 |
| John Ericson | * So for the conversation we have there should at least acknowledge the Corngood has received lots of feedback so far that his approach is a good first incremental step, and he's come here to ask about tarballs now because he has made amazing progress far faster than I, at least, thought was going to happen on the basis of basically 1 person's effort | 17:49:46 |
| John Ericson | * So for the conversation that we have, we should at least acknowledge the Corngood has received lots of feedback so far that his approach is a good first incremental step, and he's come here to ask about tarballs now because he has made amazing progress far faster than I, at least, thought was going to happen on the basis of basically 1 person's effort | 17:50:00 |
