> From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:35:41 -0700 > Cc: [email protected], Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > > > Windows? It has PowerShell, not POSIX shell. > > And one cannot install a POSIX shell?
No. There's no decent native port of a Posix shell for Windows. The only one that is usable is the MSYS Bash, which is not a native Windows program (MSYS is a fork of an old version of Cygwin). > If this causes trouble for Windows users who build GNU grep, > they can wait for a following release in which this is addressed. What's so urgent that the problem couldn't be fixed in _this_ release? The fix is simple.
