On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: [email protected] (Vincent Belaïche) > > Cc: Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]> , > > Gavin Smith <[email protected]>, > > Texinfo <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:55:27 +0200 > > > > Well you are meaning that there are only two alternatives cygwin (all in > > `:') and djgpp (all in `;'), and MSYS is really a bastard case. > > MSYS is not bastard, it just wasn't meant to be used in this capacity. > If you need something like that, just use Cygwin instead.
I personnally only use GNU/Linux, but I have colleagues who use MSYS as a generic shell, in particular when they use a software that comes with MSYS (grass, some python). Other use Cygwin. A disadvantage of Cygwin is that it seems to be quite slow. -- Pat
