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It's different in the way that it's trivial to use npm to install grunt and run builds on Windows, but not trivial to get a Makefile to run (if you don't want t
by xrstf 12y ago
It's different in the way that it's trivial to use npm to install grunt and run builds on Windows, but not trivial to get a Makefile to run (if you don't want to resort to running cygwin bashs all the time).
- nraynaud 12y agomy recollection from my windows times, is that cygwin is a pain to install and slow too, so there is no free lunch.
- rbanffy 12y ago> is a pain to install They have a setup.exe that downloads the components you select. I gather it's not as painless as "apt-get install cygwin" would be, but it's as painless as installing Windows software is. > and slow too They are painting a Linux-environment on top of a Windows OS. That's no small feat. In return you get a sensible file space, a decent command line and all the development tools you'd need on Linux. It's slower than a Linux box running on the metal, but it's as fast as a VM would be and has direct access to the host operating system (and, for me, a working Python environment where I can simply say "pip install ipython" and everything just works. I would not even consider working from Windows without it.
- fit2rule 12y agoYou can't use make to install grunt on Windows?
- Already__Taken 12y agoYou have to install make some how. That's the problem. You're tying all these cross platform tools together with something that isn't cross platform. Grats.
- rbanffy 12y agoYou can make your life difficult if you so desire, but you can also simply install Cygwin and be happy.