[swift-evolution] #if os(Windows) and MSVC/Cygwin Compatibility

[Chris Lattner]

> On May 3, 2016, at 9:35 AM, John McCall via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> On May 3, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Michael Buckley via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> I may be fundamentally misunderstanding the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but I believe it just provides binary compatibility for Linux x86_64 command-line tools, but doesn't quite implement enough of the Linux syscalls to run a Linux window manager in order to run GUI programs. So it's certainly something you could compile your server code for if you wanted to host on a Windows server, but it's not something you could use to distribute client software.
> 
> I want to stop this thread of the conversation here.  This is not a general technology discussion forum; it's not our place to second-guess whether Cygwin is useful.  The Swift project's primary criterion for accepting a port is whether there are contributors willing to maintain it. 

+1.

-Chris