[wine-devel] Re: Bug 24018 which appears to be a showstopper for running Cygwin on Wine

[André Hentschel]

On 29.06.2013 23:34, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> --- On Sat, 29/6/13, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> ...
>>> Also, running cygwin on wine, compared to other windows
>> software
>> which has no unix/linux equivalents, is hardly a priority.
>>
>> That is obviously personally true for you.  And for my
>> personal needs
>> Cygwin on Wine is a "would be nice" software build and test
>> platform.
> ...
> 
> No. Just the fact that nobody else bothered to respond to this thread should convince you that getting cygwin is not a priority to most people who is knowledgeable and capable of hacking wine.
> 

I've been following this thread. What i would like to point you all to is:
http://wiki.winehq.org/CygwinSupport
It describes why running cygwin on wine is not that senseless low priority thing.
Further it's mentioned at:
http://wiki.winehq.org/TodoList and
http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites