> Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any > other purpose than the "configure" script? If we were able to ignore the > shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer would shrink dramatically, > I guess.
For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are easy to convert and I plan to do so after the release of 1.4.0. Bo
