a "POSIX" folder

[Romain HERAULT]

Have you ever planed to have a "POSIX" root folder? i.e. a folder like 
c:\POSIX which contains "bin"  "usr" "etc" ...
And why don't you ship mingw/msys in that folder with all standard 
reactos distributions ?

Because:
1) It is the first step for developing reactos in reactos ...
2) All unix-like applications can be installed there and will not have 
to create each time their own POSIX tree.
3) It is to be ready to a massive port of gnu softwares that don't need 
a full POSIX compliant OS.
4) It is mandatory for a future POSIX subsystem.
5) It is cool and sexy.

[Steven Edwards]

POSIX is outsite of the scope of ReactOS at this point. Sometime soon
we are going to fix CoLinux working on ReactOS and then if you need
Unix like applications you can just run Linux on top of ReactOS.

--- Romain HERAULT <romain.d.herault(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>   Have you ever planed to have a "POSIX" root
> folder? i.e. a folder
>  like 
>  c:\POSIX which contains "bin"  "usr" "etc" ...
>  And why don't you ship mingw/msys in that folder with all standard 
>  reactos distributions ?
>  
>  Because:
>  1) It is the first step for developing reactos in reactos ...
>  2) All unix-like applications can be installed there and will not
>  have 
>  to create each time their own POSIX tree.
>  3) It is to be ready to a massive port of gnu softwares that don't
>  need 
>  a full POSIX compliant OS.
>  4) It is mandatory for a future POSIX subsystem.
>  5) It is cool and sexy. 


		
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[Romain HERAULT]

Steven Edwards a écrit :

>  POSIX is outsite of the scope of ReactOS at this point.
> Sometime soon
> we are going to fix CoLinux working on ReactOS and then if you need
> Unix like applications you can just run Linux on top of ReactOS.
>
>
>   
>  
My question is not about having a POSIX subsystem but having a POSIX
namespace: msys (the environement for mingw) create a fake one and, from
what I know,  the NTkernel is not tided to DOS drive letters.
A lot of simple sofware (comming from linux/unix) just need a POSIX
namespace and mingw to compile and work...
You apparently want, around the end of the year, reactos to be the main
platform for developing. Just replace the fake namespace create by msys
by a real one.

[Aliberti Emanuele]

Romain HERAULT wrote:

>   Steven Edwards a écrit :
>
> >   POSIX is outsite of the scope of ReactOS at this
> > point. Sometime soon
> >  we are going to fix CoLinux working on ReactOS and then if you need
> >  Unix like applications you can just run Linux on top of ReactOS.
> >
> >
> >   
> >  
>  My question is not about having a POSIX subsystem but having a POSIX
>  namespace: msys (the environement for mingw) create a fake one and, from
>  what I know,  the NTkernel is not tided to DOS drive letters.
>  A lot of simple sofware (comming from linux/unix) just need a POSIX
>  namespace and mingw to compile and work... 
MS' own PSX subsystem and Cygwin both manage the POSIX single rooted 
name space internally (respectively jointly in PSXSS.EXE+PSXDLL.DLL and 
in CYGWIN1.DLL). Why msys can't do the same?