On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ruben Van Boxem
<[email protected]> wrote:

> MSYS is a minimalistic and old Cygwin, which
> is a POSIX software layer on top of Windows. The MSYS Bash is also at
> version 3.2 or something. Cygwin has 4.2 if I'm not mistaken. MinGW !=
> MSYS/Cygwin, it's native Win32, without any serious posix support. MinGW-w64
> fills some gaps, but it's impossible to have decent POSIX support for native
> Win32.

Earnie Boyd and others started MSYS 2.0 a few months ago (based on
bash 4.0 and cygwin 1.7).

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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