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Re: CYGWIN git cannot install python packages with pip

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ankostis <ankostis@gmail.com>
Date
May 4, 2017, 10:18 UTC
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On 4 May 2017 at 11:47, Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
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> Confirmed: the Cygwin project as a general rule doesn't support this
> sort of mixing of Windows and Cygwin tools.  Either use Python and Git
> packages both provided by Cygwin, or both provided by Windows.
>
> Mixing and matching does work sometimes -- as was apparently the case
> with Cygwin Git v2.8.3-1 -- but it requires care and you're generally on
> your own with it.

MSYS2's git-2.12.1 also works fine, so there must be something different in this build of git that breaks this long-standing capability.

Judging from the error-message, it somehow concatenates input & output paths. Isn't this something to research about?

Regards, for your continuous effort,
  Kostis
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