application compatibility vista

Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for that...
So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32 lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent end and could not get started.
Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.
Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or failed with?

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:54:01 -0700, Arthur Norman <Arthur Norman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for that...
So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32 lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent end and could not get started.
Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.
Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or failed with?

There is info here which is quite extensive
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Beta_2_Software_Compatibility_List#AntiVirus_3
Jonah

At the very least you should report these compatibility issues to Microsoft as bugs.
Since there is no application compatibility public newsgroup, vista.general is probably your best bet.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User

One problem is that compatibility is a moving target, especially from build to build, so lists are not very reliable.
"Arthur Norman" <Arthur Norman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for that...
So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32 lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent end and could not get started.
Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.
Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or failed with?

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:59:18 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

One problem is that compatibility is a moving target, especially from build to build, so lists are not very reliable.

Yeah but that link is a wikipedia type thingamagig which seems to be updated regularly by users. Dunno how accurate it is overall but everything I tried so far works as advertised.
Jonah

"Arthur Norman" <Arthur Norman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for that...
So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32 lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent end and could not get started.
Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.
Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or failed with?