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0 pointsCpoll9y ago0 comments

I don't think you need to wait for anything; I think he's describing MinGW that comes with a Windows install of Git. It's been around for a long time.

Cygwin vs MinGW is a whole other argument, of course.

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icc979y ago

Yeah the MinGW - it's just that Git packaged them all up nicely, previously I always found there was a few missing tools. I find it much nicer to be able to use those inside DOS.

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0 pointsCpoll9y ago0 comments

I don't think you need to wait for anything; I think he's describing MinGW that comes with a Windows install of Git. It's been around for a long time.

Cygwin vs MinGW is a whole other argument, of course.

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icc979y ago

Yeah the MinGW - it's just that Git packaged them all up nicely, previously I always found there was a few missing tools. I find it much nicer to be able to use those inside DOS.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse