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What differentiator? They are all using the same source code. Msys, Cygwin, now Microsoft all provide a whole ecosystem of gnu tools. (Git just repackages ms

by dzdt 11y ago

What differentiator? They are all using the same source code. Msys, Cygwin, now Microsoft all provide a whole ecosystem of gnu tools. (Git just repackages msys, I think.) My level of understanding of the difference between cygwin and msys is that, when you build an executable, cygwin requires its own dll's to run it while msys uses the system dll's. The result is with cygwin you have full posix while with msys some things that Windows does in a non-posixy way are missing or wonky. But it is much easier to distribute msys-built binaries. So what is the differentiator with the Microsoft version? That they are hooking it up to Ubuntu package management?

JdeBP 11y ago
You're missing the difference between this: * http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/bash http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/bash and what I actually pointed to, which was this: * http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/bash http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/bash Your second sentence reveals that you're not getting the differentiator. To get this, read the blurbs and what the Microsoft developers themselves emphasize about this. It's pretty much the very first thing mentioned every time. Sometimes, its even in the headline. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391891 (in the third sentence) * https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-download-now-3/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash... (in the first sentence) * https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-o... (in the fourth paragraph, repeated in the fifth) * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windows.html http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windo... (in the first sentence) * http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs... (in the URL!)
- dzdt 11y ago
  So what I get from that is that, like cygwin, and unlike msys, the target is full linux userspace compatibility. So is it essentially like MS is bundling cygwin as a windows system library?

by dzdt 11y ago

JdeBP 11y ago

You're missing the difference between this: * http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/bash http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/trusty/bash and what I actually pointed to, which was this: * http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/bash http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/bash Your second sentence reveals that you're not getting the differentiator. To get this, read the blurbs and what the Microsoft developers themselves emphasize about this. It's pretty much the very first thing mentioned every time. Sometimes, its even in the headline. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391891 (in the third sentence) * https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-download-now-3/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/04/06/bash... (in the first sentence) * https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-o... (in the fourth paragraph, repeated in the fifth) * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windows.html http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windo... (in the first sentence) * http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs... (in the URL!)

dzdt 11y ago
So what I get from that is that, like cygwin, and unlike msys, the target is full linux userspace compatibility. So is it essentially like MS is bundling cygwin as a windows system library?