LeoDavidson said:Ubuntu said:*snip*That is absolutely massive by "stuff added on to an individual installer/application just to get it to run when you don't care about emulating an OS and just want the damn app" standards, no matter how you spin it. That's an order of magnitude larger than most apps.
As I said, I don't want to emulate another OS. I just want to run some additional tools/apps to get a job done. I would never choose an app which requires Cygwin if there's a similar alternative which doesn't.
Would you consider using a source control system for Linux which required WINE when you could use one which didn't and still met your requirements?
I use Git as my primary VCS. I do most of my development on Visual Studio + Windows. I'll tell you the secret! I run Windows in a virtual machine on top of a Linux host. All my projects are stored on a shared folder which is actually on the host machine. Any time I want to commit changes I just minimize the VM and go into a terminal and type "git commit -m "blah blah changes blah blah"".
I'm no expert in Git but I notice it's ridiculusly fast. Commit takes like a second or less. But really everything about git, updating and what not, just feels really fast. That plus the DVCS functionality makes me like it a lot more then SVN.
