Am Dienstag, den 05.09.2017, 07:16 -0700 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > On 9/5/2017 7:11 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > To be honest I am not very happy with gmake and ant. It is > > difficult to > > add the functionality to Eclipse. Also we stay dependant for > > Windows on > > Cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux, which feels to me awkward. > > Also > > if we want to have people develop on Windows. A good build > > environment > > is vital. > > I am curious about why you consider the requirement for Cygwin to be > awkward. > > I use UNIX command line tools, especially the svn command and the > combination of find and grep, far too often to not have Cygwin > running > anyway. >
Cygwin brings much more then commandline tools. It is a complete System on a system. It has a complete brainwashed Interface for maintaining your installation. It is not very well integrated to the Windows Platform, which I very much dislike. I think you have to respect the Platform you provide the service for. However I dont like Putty either. So I am a very special case of a nerd. There are good alternatives around, thought. I like MobaXterm. Has all I want ready to use. Including ready to use XServer support for SSH. There is a USB version out there that does not need any installation. The xserver support was a bit awkward on cygwin when I tried to set it up. (that was years ago.) It is a broken down Cygwin, but much better integrated and usability. Or I like git for Windows which provides a bash. There is also a Bash for Windows project I think. In combination with ConEmu it is realy good. If you jsut need a small bash. I think there is also a bash for Windows project. And I think Powershell is a good alternative to bash. I enjoy using it even I have to learn the different approach it takes. But logic is pretty streight forward. On my work Laptop I use ConEmu with it. And I am a big fan of chocolatey. At least as much as a Windows disliker like me can be a fan of something on Windows ;) Plus in my experience Windows Users (Developer or not) tend to react quite allergic to Linux and other half eaten fruit OSes. So not haveing them to install that, is a lower barrier. :) In general all People I met reacted quite allergic to the system they were not a fanboy of. All the best Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
