http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/ (it extracts some files and download & install scripts).
The download takes a while though. There's some 400 packages in there, or about ~1000 executables in my GNUWin32/bin folder. Crazy. :p On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/13/2010 04:28 PM, dsimcha wrote: >> >> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu ([email protected])'s >> article >>> >>> On 09/13/2010 12:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> >>>> Russel Winder wrote: >>>>> >>>>> To be honest I don't give a fig about how the zipfile is created, the >>>>> scripts and executables for Linux should come with the execute >>>>> permission preset. It is a ridiculous irritation that after unzipping a >>>>> supposed binary distribution, I then have to go and work out which >>>>> files >>>>> to make executable. If Windows cannot hack building a proper zipfile >>>>> then a machine with a proper operating system should be used so that >>>>> the >>>>> zipfile is fit for its purpose. >>>> >>>> >>>> Of course you're right, and I know it, I've just been lazy. I spent some >>>> time on google and cannot find a zip program for Windows that enables >>>> one to set (or even display) the file attributes in zip files. Go >>>> figure. So I'll just write one using Phobos' std.zip. >>> >>> s/So I\'ll just write one using Phobos\' std.zip/So I\'ll just use zip >>> on Linux and call it a day/ >>> Waste of time doesn't begin to describe this. >>> Andrei >> >> Well, some people (like me) just plain prefer Windows over Linux. That >> said, >> there's always Cygwin. I love the command line environment of Unix-like >> OS's, but >> prefer certain things about Windows like having stable ABIs for the basic >> OS >> facilities (meaning that I can just download and unpack a binary and it >> **consistently** just works across all modern Windows machines) and having >> hardware support that doesn't suck horribly. Cygwin lets me have it both >> ways. >> Also, Cygwin's zip is probably compiled from the same source as any Linux >> distro's, and should probably do what you need. > > There's nothing wrong about preferring Windows over Linux. I'm just saying > (much like you) that badly reinventing Unix tools under Windows is not quite > productive. > > Andrei >
