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."
I like the "pacnam" name.
However, coming back to the original request:
Cygwin includes, like any Linux/BSD distrubution, a large amount
of packages of all different categories:
- compilers (C, fortran, C++..)
- script (Bash, Perl, Python,...)
- MAth (Octave, glpk, R, GMP, ...)
- Simulation (ngspice, gnucap...)
- Database (sqlite, postgres, DB,..)
- X Window system
...
No sane one need all of them (~ 11 GB as Warren recently tested
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00273.html )
While Crome as single application has a single click setup,
if you want to add any of the several ADD-ONs you need to
add separatly.
--
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
