Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrej Mitrovic]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/ (it extracts some
files and download & install scripts).

The download takes a while though. There's some 400 packages in there,
or about ~1000 executables in my GNUWin32/bin folder. Crazy. :p

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 09/13/2010 04:28 PM, dsimcha wrote:
>>
>> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s
>> article
>>>
>>> On 09/13/2010 12:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> To be honest I don't give a fig about how the zipfile is created, the
>>>>> scripts and executables for Linux should come with the execute
>>>>> permission preset. It is a ridiculous irritation that after unzipping a
>>>>> supposed binary distribution, I then have to go and work out which
>>>>> files
>>>>> to make executable. If Windows cannot hack building a proper zipfile
>>>>> then a machine with a proper operating system should be used so that
>>>>> the
>>>>> zipfile is fit for its purpose.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Of course you're right, and I know it, I've just been lazy. I spent some
>>>> time on google and cannot find a zip program for Windows that enables
>>>> one to set (or even display) the file attributes in zip files. Go
>>>> figure. So I'll just write one using Phobos' std.zip.
>>>
>>> s/So I\'ll just write one using Phobos\' std.zip/So I\'ll just use zip
>>> on Linux and call it a day/
>>> Waste of time doesn't begin to describe this.
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Well, some people (like me) just plain prefer Windows over Linux.  That
>> said,
>> there's always Cygwin.  I love the command line environment of Unix-like
>> OS's, but
>> prefer certain things about Windows like having stable ABIs for the basic
>> OS
>> facilities (meaning that I can just download and unpack a binary and it
>> **consistently** just works across all modern Windows machines) and having
>> hardware support that doesn't suck horribly.  Cygwin lets me have it both
>> ways.
>> Also, Cygwin's zip is probably compiled from the same source as any Linux
>> distro's, and should probably do what you need.
>
> There's nothing wrong about preferring Windows over Linux. I'm just saying
> (much like you) that badly reinventing Unix tools under Windows is not quite
> productive.
>
> Andrei
>