On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 04:26:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 03:00:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>wrote:
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 03:00:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I do kind of wonder though what MS would do if the majority of
Windows programmers really got a taste of how great the
command line is and started complaining to MS en masse about
how MS needs to have a proper command line - preferably even
port over something like bash or zsh with all of the fantastic
tools that come with that. I don't see any reason why they
couldn't do that, but they're completely focused on GUIs and
doing their own thing.
MYSYS 2[1] is bash for Windows and has many Linux tools
available, using packman to manage them. Then there's also git
Bash[2], which is primarily focused on git but does provide
other tools (nowhere near what's available for MSYS 2, though).
[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
[2] https://git-for-windows.github.io/
I currently use the bash shell that gets installed with git (so I
assume that that's the git bash that you mention), and it's a
significant improvement over having to deal with what Windows
provides, but it's still a far cry from actually having a
full-blown *nix environment. I'll have to take a look at msys at
some point, and maybe I should look at cygwin again (I had a
number of problems with it when I tried it last, but that was
several years ago now).
- Jonathan M Davis
