Hope it's OK to continue crossposting this thread.
also of note http://apache.dev.wapme.net
Grabbed the bindist earlier today. ;-) I wanted to torture test the Zope session manager under the cygwin-built Zope using ab, which is good real-world threading test. It appears that neither ab nor wget much like something about their communication with the cygwin-built Zope. Here's a wget session with a cygwin-built python/Zope combo:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that cygwin seems to impose a noticeable performance hit for an application running under it, compared to a "native" port. See for instance http://httpd.apache.org/docs/cygwin.html "Apache still performs best, and is most reliable, on Unix platforms. First benchmarks have shown that the same Apache setup on Cygwin performs about 30% slower than the corresponding native Windows version." cheers, oliver