Thank you for your answer, brief as it was.  ;-)


On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 3:59:26 PM UTC-7, slide wrote:
>
> Short answer is no.
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017, 15:56 Pheckphul <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
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>> Sorry; I see I wasn't specific enough. I'm asking about installing a 
>> Jenkins master on Windows. So, when installing a Jenkins master on Windows, 
>> is the "UnxUtils" package still a prerequisite?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 1:02:51 PM UTC-7, Mark Waite wrote:
>>
>>> I've never installed UnixUtils or WinBash (or cygwin) on any of my 
>>> Windows agents.  I do install command line git, which already provides some 
>>> Unix-like commands, but I don't intentionally rely on the bash shell or 
>>> other Unix-like commands that are part of command line git for Windows.
>>>
>>> I don't generally run the master on Windows because I find it easier to 
>>> upgrade Jenkins versions on Linux computers.  The docker images (as an 
>>> example) are running on a Debian 8 base operating system.  I haven't 
>>> installed a long-running Windows master server for several years, so I 
>>> can't advise if Windows upgrades of Jenkins are now much easier than when I 
>>> last worried about them.
>>>
>>> Mark Waite
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:51 PM Pheckphul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>> The Jenkins wiki page for installing Jenkins states "Since Jenkins was 
>>>> written to work on unix-like platforms, some parts assume the presence of 
>>>> unix-utilities. It is advised to install these as well on Windows." 
>>>> <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins> It 
>>>> goes on to suggest the use of either UnxUtils or Win-Bash. Does Jenkins on 
>>>> Windows still require "unix-utilities?" If so, what are "unix-utilities?" 
>>>> Does this mean GNU coreutils?
>>>>
>>>> As for UnxUtils and Win-Bash: UnxUtils appears to be abandoned as it 
>>>> hasn't been updated since 2003; the download link on its homepage results 
>>>> in a 403 error. Win-Bash appears to simply be a port of Bash and relies on 
>>>> UnxUtils for the "unix-utilites" that the wiki page says Jenkins relies 
>>>> on. 
>>>> I'm sure there are security vulnerabilities in UnxUtils, though I haven't 
>>>> yet expended the effort to verify my assumption. 
>>>>
>>>> I will appreciate any insight experienced Jenkins on Windows users 
>>>> offer up as I'm a complete n00b to Jenkins. 
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