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swcarpentry / windows-installer

Software Carpentry installer for Windows.
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Use Babun shell in place of SC Windows Installer? #66

Open kirschbombe opened 6 years ago

kirschbombe commented 6 years ago

I haven't seen any mention of the Babun Windows Shell (http://babun.github.io) in SC discussions, so I'm putting this out there for consideration. We will have participants use Babun instead of the installer for an upcoming workshop, so can report back on how it goes.

I am primarily a Mac/Linux user who occasionally needs to work in Windows. I use Babun for all my processing/scripting work on Windows and it works great for me. It does not require admin permissions to install and comes with Git and other packages pre-installed, so I think it would be great for the SC Git & Unix Shell lessons.

I'm happy to write up any documentation, instructions, etc. if needed.

kirschbombe commented 6 years ago

Update: we successfully used Babun in place of Git Bash for our SC workshop earlier this week. Our modified setup instructions are here: https://ucla-data-archive.github.io/2017-10-16-ucla/#setup

embray commented 6 years ago

That's not a bad idea to try. FWIW I've been pushing for a Cygwin-based environment for Windows users. Babun is in fact just that--it's an installation of Cygwin with some default setup that's a bit nicer and more modern than the Cygwin defaults (not too different from what I do either).