You display the very reason why it is sub-optimal for Windows. It is a Unix tool. It is a tool for people working in Unix land to use if they happen to be using a Windows OS. Does it work? Yes. Is it a Windows based tool? No. The multiple learning curve of Unix shell environment on top of a new RCS system including the overhead of installing yet more software on your system and the attendant issues of that learning curve would be a more then slight significant barrier to adoption. My comment wasn't about what an uber elite experienced unix admin / developer could do. It was about the fact that cygwin tools do not a windows port make. Steven -powershell doesn't use bat files On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Quoting Steven Peck <sepeck@gmail.com>:
Cygwin as a tool is sub-optimal even as a command line tool for Windows. A Unix port of tools used only within an emulated environment does not a supported platform make.
I think 10's of 1000's would argue with you. Since March 2004 there have been ~700,000+/- downloads of MSYS-1.0.10.exe alone.
Oh, the new command line for windows is PowerShell.
I try to stay away from the windows CLI preferring bash instead. As for GIT using Cygwin or MSYS they can write a shell command once and not have to port it to CMD .bat files so that it supports UNIX and WINDOWS at the same time. Less overhead in interoperability is the biggest benefits of Cygwin and MSYS even though it may be slightly sub-optimal.
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