OK, after more reading I find that these are the main benefits of MSYS2 over Cygwin:
* Support for interop with mingw-w64 built packages. * Ability to switch from MSYS to MinGW mode by setting an environment variable (MSYSTEM). * Automatic conversion on the fly in the msys2.0.dll between different path formats. * Automatic handling in the msys2.0.dll of the different line endings (posix vs Windows). * A direct recompilation of the Arch Linux package manager (Pacman). * Various other more technical things. The main benefit as explained by an MSYS2 person is that with MSYS2 you'll use a lot more natively compiled binaries, which will be faster. The main benefits over MinGW are: * It's actually being developed. * It is regularly synced with the Cygwin project. * MSYS2 bash is not inferior to Cygwin bash. Bill. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
