Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

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.

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