Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

[Алексей П. <al...@gm...>]

Hey!
Maybe fork new Cygwin to MSYS2 is the best solution? I am interesting in it
because MSYS is very old and porting new software for it is very
difficult. I can help you any way I can. I have Cygwin git repo on
https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin.git ерфе I synchronizes once a week with
Cygwin cvs repo. And I  have diff between msys and cygwin-1.3.3. We can do
if anybody interesting in it.

2013/1/14 Ruben Van Boxem <van...@gm...>

> Hey guys,
>
> I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of Cygwin,
> which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run all them
> shell commands.
>
> What if someone were to write an sh interpreter that used special tricks
> to manipulate directory names when it calls programs, which were all
> compiled for native Win32? The sh interpreter could act as a process/thread
> manager that handles all the shell's forking.
>
> I know there would be some trickiness involved when running shell scripts
> containing Unix-like directory names, although I don't think it would be
> undoable.
>
> This might be exactly what MSYS does of course, but it requires a special
> build environment and ancient GCC (although the mysterious MSYS2 will
> probably fix this).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ruben
>
>
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