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bmatzelle / gow

Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
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Has the project been deprecated？ #250

Open tabris17 opened 5 years ago

tabris17 commented 5 years ago

Has the project been deprecated？

bmatzelle commented 5 years ago

No.

kannes commented 4 years ago

Is the project "dead"? There were no updates in almost 4 years and thus the binaries are stale and no up to date (including security issues).

bmatzelle commented 4 years ago

I have been using a Mac for seven years now so I have all of the *nix apps running natively. That reduces the attention that I give to Gow.

T100D commented 4 years ago

We use it on all of our windows production servers to do some nasty/nice things, one only can on linux environments altho with powershell one can do al lot these days. That said, an update would be nice. ;-)

DGrv commented 4 years ago

I can only agree. Highly useful tool. Far better that what you can have on Windows. I would be really glad to see it reviving :) Thx

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kannes commented 4 years ago

I have been using a Mac for seven years now so I have all of the *nix apps running natively. That reduces the attention that I give to Gow.

Understandly! :D

Maybe you could publish some notes about the provenience or build process for the binaries so that others could take over maintaining that part?

bmatzelle commented 4 years ago

@kannes that's a good idea. I have some notes here but I never posted anything more about it. I'll see what I can cook up.

busstoptaktik commented 4 years ago

@bmatzelle consider the (comparatively ancient) ubuntu code of conduct element: Step down considerately.

Developers on every project come and go and Ubuntu is no different. When you leave or disengage from the project, in whole or in part, we ask that you do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. This means you should tell people you are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you leave off.

Your work has been awesome and useful, but please engage with the community and make sure to give your project a chance to live as long as possible/needed, now that it (apparently) is not useful to yourself anymore

luxzg commented 4 years ago

Seems like an appropriate place to ask - are there any alternatives to this project?

(not aiming at likes of WSL or Cygwin, just the binaries like here, but a bit updated)

lm8 commented 4 years ago

luxzg, the mingw.org project has some builds of programs. There are also projects related to MinGW like ezwinports at Sourceforge. I'm assuming you already know about projects like gnuwint32 which hasn't been updated in a while. I also do a lot of builds from source of various utility programs that I need and work with.

moliad commented 3 years ago

As a user, I have a little issue with the licensing. I am trying to reuse some of the binaries here but I think the GNU based binaries require you to at least share or link to the source code you used to compile them (Cygwin repo?). It doesn't even have to be in a clean, buildable form.

My issue stems from the fact that I also cannot say where the source is, or provide-it myself to my own users.

bmatzelle commented 3 years ago

As a user, I have a little issue with the licensing. I am trying to reuse some of the binaries here but I think the GNU based binaries require you to at least share or link to the source code you used to compile them (Cygwin repo?). It doesn't even have to be in a clean, buildable form.

My issue stems from the fact that I also cannot say where the source is, or provide-it myself to my own users.

I do provide the source: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases (gow-utilities-src-0.8.0.tar link) but no instructions. Building these binaries on Windows is a nightmare.

moliad commented 3 years ago

ok thanks, it could be useful to note it in the readme somewhere, I never would have guessed that the source code was only in the binary releases section of the repo ;-)

sebma commented 2 years ago

@bmatzelle Hi, thanks a lot for these builds.

Can you please provide us with your build script or with the build instructions a Build.md file in your gow github repository ?

lm8 commented 2 years ago

@sebma Which programs are you trying to build? I may have build scripts and makefiles for some of them. I have a build script for the bash shell (older version of bash natively ported to Windows), less and putty, several of the archive utilities like bzip2, xz, zip, unzip. I've been switching to sbase and BSD versions of some of the core utilities though instead of using GNU versions.

bmatzelle commented 2 years ago

@lm8 if you can find me some location where I can get/build clean, modern versions of these binaries I'd appreciate it. Obviously the GNU versions we have are really old at this point.

lm8 commented 2 years ago

@bmatzelle What do you need as far as a location is concerned? Do you need where the latest sources are or later binaries for Windows or do you need a virtual machine to build the programs on? Can't help much with the latter.

These two projects have some more modern Windows compatible sources for GNU programs. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ https://github.com/lhmouse/nano-win