> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:09:32 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > Cc: Vincent Belaïche <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > > > 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.
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