2013/1/14 Алексей Павлов <[email protected]>
> Hey!
> Maybe fork new Cygwin to MSYS2 is the best solution? I am interesting in
> it because MSYS is very old and porting new software for it is very
> difficult. I can help you any way I can. I have Cygwin git repo on
> https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin.git ерфе I synchronizes once a week
> with Cygwin cvs repo. And I have diff between msys and cygwin-1.3.3. We
> can do if anybody interesting in it.
>
MSYS2 is being worked on last I heard, and they are using a newer Cygwin as
a base. But this is more than what is practically necessary for a decently
usable sh interpreter on Windows, provided all tools (coreutils etc.) are
also ported to native Win32.
Ruben
> 2013/1/14 Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]>
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of
>> Cygwin, which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run
>> all them shell commands.
>>
>> What if someone were to write an sh interpreter that used special tricks
>> to manipulate directory names when it calls programs, which were all
>> compiled for native Win32? The sh interpreter could act as a process/thread
>> manager that handles all the shell's forking.
>>
>> I know there would be some trickiness involved when running shell scripts
>> containing Unix-like directory names, although I don't think it would be
>> undoable.
>>
>> This might be exactly what MSYS does of course, but it requires a special
>> build environment and ancient GCC (although the mysterious MSYS2 will
>> probably fix this).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ruben
>>
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