On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Rainer Schuetz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 07 Apr 2016, at 11:30, Mario Emmenlauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Dear Developers, >> >> I just wanted to share my excitement about msys2 and the pacman-based >> MinGW64 environment. For the first time, its really a joy to compile on >> Windows! Thanks guys! > > > Very much agreed! > > The advent of “Ubuntu on Windows” might be seen as endangering. But maybe it > will have the opposite effect. On the one hand it will replace msys, but it > will move mingw-package-maintenance part of msys2 into the foreground and > turn msys2 into a homebrew for Windows? Will we get pacman for msys2-MinGW? >
Thanks guys, I don't see it in terms of dangers here. The msys2 portion of MSYS2 is a bit clunky (esp. heuristic path conversion - though this new thing would suffer that still if it allowed inter-operation, 32-bit autorebase and the GPL license getting applied to all packages in that repo) and I'd happily look at alternatives, but they have to meet the following criteria: 1. Can have mixed process stacks (i.e. can call Windows software which can in turn call this systems' software and so on). 2. Runs on Windows XP and upwards (until we drop XP) 3. Runs on 32-bit. 4. Is fully Open Source. Unfortunately Ubuntu-Bash on Windows 10 meets neither of the first two *, and I'm not sure about the last two. If it met all 4 then I'd love to port our msys2 repo to Arch Linux and provide an msys2arch repo that you could run as an alternative to the msys2 side of things. Midipix is more likely to provide what we need than this stuff. Then again, let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. The Cygwin-core at the heart of the msys2-runtime has done a wonderful job and we're very thankful for their efforts despite these few issues, some of which would exist with any potential replacement anyway. -- Cheers, Ray. * 1. https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ "Third, note that Bash and Linux tools cannot interact with Windows applications and tools, and vice-versa. So you won’t be able to run Notepad from Bash, or run Ruby in Bash from PowerShell." > Best > .r. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
