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Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:59:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
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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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