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From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLXCuqoeGnmOBsxVmZ1FDz_ox=w09V84G=6MGpv3441w9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKYyfB08yy5QPk_w2JMPE909s0AK0H-Rmx=c5G4AUYdqLdCVtQ@mail.gmail.com>

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?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-29  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-29  4:26 Ilja Umov
2014-01-29  4:47 ` Josh Hunsaker
2014-01-29  5:32   ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-29  6:57 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2014-01-29  7:06   ` Steven Penny
2014-01-29  7:28   ` Marco Atzeri
2014-01-29 14:59     ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-29 20:40       ` iljau
2014-01-29 21:22         ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-29 21:48           ` Steven Penny
2014-01-29 23:45             ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-01-30  1:13             ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-29 16:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-01-29 17:34   ` Ilja Umov

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