From: Evgeny Grin <k2k@yandex.ru>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b3de073-1be5-248b-19b3-26827947607e@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301901761.20161027162200@yandex.ru>
On 27.10.2016 16:22, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Evgeny Grin!
Privet, Ðндрей!
>> With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command
>> from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects!
>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/
>> Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n.
>
> Which will break a lot of tools not expecting this kind oh "help".
A lot of?
I don't know many... correction.. any GNU/Linux tools that works badly
with \n newlines.
>> Is Cygwin still better for something?
>
> Did they fixed the user mappings?
I don't know as I didn't have any problem with it.
>> I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches,
>> but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands
>> and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS).
>
> WSL requires Windows 10. End of story.
Do you mean, that Windows itself is a problem?
Or version 10 of Windows is a problem? Anyway, all Windows users will
use Windows 10 (or successors) sooner or later.
So it's only the beginning of the story.
--
Best Wishes,
Evgeny
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-27 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 22:59 Evgeny Grin
2016-10-27 1:04 ` Duncan Roe
2016-10-27 14:46 ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-27 17:10 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-10-27 14:42 ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-27 15:32 ` Evgeny Grin [this message]
2016-10-29 6:24 ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-29 17:16 ` L. A. Walsh
2016-10-29 18:18 ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-31 14:52 ` Andrey Repin
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