From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Requested report
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <334708bb-eedb-ed40-8c64-3d0028af5214@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18DA4DAE-F801-45B9-9E3D-F03BF7420D07@solidrocksystems.com>
On 2017-12-01 08:35, Vince Rice wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
>> On 11/30/2017 11:41 PM, Richard Mateosian wrote:
>>> Thanks. I wasn't actually using Cygwin, but Ruby apparently does so
>>> under the covers. Or maybe my path leads it astray, because I used to use
>>> Cygwin -- a long time ago.
Some of these packages include Cygwin RT under the covers as an install base,
and to support Ruby Gems, which is why we keep seeing FAST_CWD complaints.
>> You should not put Cygwin in your Windows PATH environment at the system
>> level or user levels. If you need it during a command shell session,
>> add it after you start the command shell. I've never heard that Ruby
>> intentionally uses Cygwin.
>
> What? I've had cygwin in my path since the B19 days (that's right, even
> *before* the infamous B20). I regularly (and almost exclusively) use cygwin
> tools in the command processor; I have a mintty session open, but only use
> it when I need to do shell-related things.
> There's no reason not to have Cygwin in the Windows path, and lots of reasons
> to do so (grep, cat, tail, head, etc., etc.).
+1 post TC AST/Uwin, BCpp GNUtilities, DJgpp, GnuWin32, MinGW, Msys, ...
...elevated System Scheduled Tasks using shell scripts...
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2017-11-30 19:12 ` Fwd: " Richard Mateosian
2017-11-30 19:50 ` Andrey Repin
2017-12-01 4:42 ` Richard Mateosian
2017-12-01 14:55 ` cyg Simple
2017-12-01 15:35 ` Vince Rice
2017-12-01 17:00 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2017-12-02 3:31 ` cyg Simple
2017-12-02 5:07 ` Vince Rice
2017-12-01 22:05 ` Fwd: " Andrey Repin
2017-12-01 18:27 ` Douglas Coup
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