A'moaca'...
Do you see any reason that MOSS couldn't run under Cygwin's windows environment? (Secondarily, are you familiar with Cygwin?)
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MOSS on Cygwin
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MOSS on Cygwin
One of the OpenUru toolsmiths... a bookbinder.
Re: MOSS on Cygwin
My only serious worry about Cygwin would be signal support. I have found signal handling to be a bit choppy in the past.
MOSS uses signals (in particular SIGUSR2) for inter-thread signalling, so unfortunately if signal handling isn't up to snuff you'll have trouble with little things like linking. Everything else MOSS does is quite straightforward, and really ought to work. Since inter-process communication is over TCP connections, we don't need pipes or anything else like that which is kind of shaky in the Windows world.
Cygwin has had a few more years of life since I last worked seriously with it, so the only real way to know is to try, I'm afraid. I don't recall if there is a postgres package, though in theory one could use a Windows-native version if it exists. You probably would have to set some DB connection parameters in the config file.
- a'moaca'
MOSS uses signals (in particular SIGUSR2) for inter-thread signalling, so unfortunately if signal handling isn't up to snuff you'll have trouble with little things like linking. Everything else MOSS does is quite straightforward, and really ought to work. Since inter-process communication is over TCP connections, we don't need pipes or anything else like that which is kind of shaky in the Windows world.
Cygwin has had a few more years of life since I last worked seriously with it, so the only real way to know is to try, I'm afraid. I don't recall if there is a postgres package, though in theory one could use a Windows-native version if it exists. You probably would have to set some DB connection parameters in the config file.
- a'moaca'