Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231614490.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701231506.32396.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Tuesday 2007 January 23 14:21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Uhm. You do understand that we use MinGW to port to, not _plain_ 
> > Windows? So we do have a "less".
> 
> Nope; I didn't.  Oh dear.  I've obviously misunderstood.  I thought 
> MinGW was for compiling to native Windows?  Do you use MinGW to compile 
> to cygwin as well?

MinGW and cygwin differ in one very important point: cygwin needs an extra dll, MinGW does not.

However, the development environment is still console-based, with a bash so you can run configure and simple bash scripts. It is definitely more catering to Unix types than Windows types.

So yes, there is a bash, and there is a less, and there is perl.

> > That was not Windows. That was DOS.
> 
> I'm sure pipes were still awful in Win98.  I accept though, that it is 
> possible Windows has changed in the last 9 years :-)

Win98 was based on DOS. Windows XP is based on VMS.

<tongue-in-cheek> Yes, I know. They left everything behind, and started Windows NT anew. Yeah, right. </tongue-in-cheek>

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> > With less, on the other hand, you just exit the pager, or let it 
> > search through stdin. It is so much more convenient.
> 
> That sounds better than I remember.  You'll have talked me into 
> migrating to Windows soon :-)

I don't understand. The command "less" is the default pager of git, so you are prone to have used it already.

Ciao, Dscho