From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3483 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2014 14:59:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3428 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jan 2014 14:59:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:59:16 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-44-31.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.44.31] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Wbi-000JHQ-Pb for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:59:14 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 0891060108 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:59:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:59:12 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+B40RsLSp2VqdjJ59gbDX6 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:59:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better Message-ID: <20140129145912.GA4369@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <52E8ADA1.1090800@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52E8ADA1.1090800@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00480.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:28:33AM +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: >On 29/01/2014 07:57, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote >>> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed: >>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 >> >> Well I have to say I was skeptical until I saw this >> >> $ bash --version >> GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys) >> >> However this distribution is huge >> >> $ du -hs 'C:\cross64' >> 763M C:\cross64 >> >> Do they have some kind of installer/package manager yet? >> > > >"This page documents the instructions for setting up a Windows build >using ???msys2, which is a fairly complete build of MinGW + the msys >tools. [cut]. >It's also smaller and has a convenient package manager, pacman." It should be pretty obvious that discussion about MSYS is off-topic. Please stop. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple