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bmatzelle / gow

Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
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Project status? #237

Open Gitoffthelawn opened 7 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 7 years ago

What is the project status?

Any recommended active forks?

divinity76 commented 7 years ago

well, Cygwin does pretty much everything gow does, and a lot more. if Gow is lacking something you want, Cygwin probably has it. but you'll have to manually add C:\cygwin64\bin to your PATH system variable if you want to use the programs from cmd. envcyg

scardine commented 7 years ago

The Windows Subsystem for Linux cover most of my use cases for GoW: now you can install Ubuntu over Windows directly from the Microsoft Store.

Gitoffthelawn commented 7 years ago

@scardine That's only for Windows 10, right?

divinity76 commented 7 years ago

yup, but that said, Cygwin works from windows Vista and up, and does pretty much everything the win10 linux subsystem does, or so i've heard. (for what it's worth, i run windows 7, and my windows 10 running friends say they still prefer Cygwin, lol)

scardine commented 7 years ago

Windows 10, requires engaging the "Insider Preview" program last time I checked.

T100D commented 6 years ago

The advantage of GO is that it is small and easy to install on a windows server environment. I use it to do som quirks on windows system more easily for monitoring purposes. Love to see an updated version of Gow.

lm8 commented 5 years ago

I build a lot of my utilities and libraries from source using MinGW. I have a lot of the same programs built including later versions of the archiving utilities/libraries, curl and putty. If there's interest, would be happy to share what I have.

scardine commented 5 years ago

I build a lot of my utilities and libraries from source using MinGW. I have a lot of the same programs built including later versions of the archiving utilities/libraries, curl and putty. If there's interest, would be happy to share what I have.

Can you use them with Windows paths (C:\Foo\Bar) like in GoW? For me the greatest advantage of GoW over Cygwin is that you can use Windows paths instead of /cygdrive/c/foo/bar.

lm8 commented 4 years ago

You can definitely use standard Windows paths. Wouldn't be very useful in a Windows command prompt without them. Later versions of Windows support use of slash or backslash interchangeably in most cases, so I've attempted to do the same. I'm also not a big fan of the way Cygwin and msys show access to the file system. I don't like abstractions like having /bin and /usr/bin pointing to the same location. I'm slowly working towards getting enough native programs running so that I can build the programs I need (with GNU autotools or other build systems) without msys or Cygwin. I have patches for some of the GNU autotools to get them to run natively. They don't work properly if building natively on Windows with the code as is and their developers aren't interested in supporting native Windows or accepting patches to make their implementations work outside of Cygwin or msys environments on Windows..

lm8 commented 4 years ago

I've uploaded my compilation of xz which doesn't appear to be in gow. If there's interested, I can upload some other utilities not found in gow. The link to find the upload is here; https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/15650.html

Gitoffthelawn commented 4 years ago

@lm8 I'm interested. Can you put them in a GitHub repo? Thanks!

lm8 commented 4 years ago

@Gitoffthelawn We can't access GitHub from work. They block access. So, no plans to add to a GitHub repository for now.

Gitoffthelawn commented 4 years ago

@lm8 They block GitHub? LOL. That's an odd choice of sites to block. Regardless, I thank you for the update.