To Werner and the rest of our Windows developers:

My Debian Lenny bash version is

ir...@raven> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

My recent experiences with MSYS-bash under Wine have been good.  It's version
is

bash.exe-3.1$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That version is two years older than the Lenny version and basically
reflects the conservatism of the MSYS project about adopting new releases.
But the important point is it is still bash 3.

In comparison, win-bash is a port of bash 1 (!) (actually version 1.14.2) to
Windows NT that has been adjusted in the many years since to the newer
Windows platforms without adding functionality.  In fact, win-bash was so
old and missing so much functionality that we had to do a lot of screwing
around with the test scripts to get win-bash to work with them at all.

In the Wiki should we be suggesting MSYS-bash rather than win-bash to all
our advanced Windows users who want to test their installation? If you guys
see no practical limitations to that idea, I will make the appropriate wiki
changes.  MSYS has a lot of mind share in the Windows developer community in
any case so switching our recommendation from win-bash to MSYS-bash may be an
easy sell.  The advantage to us of this change is that if we switch our
Windows testers from winbash to MSYS-bash, that will put many fewer
constraints on any future test script changes we might want to make.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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