Re: need a simple java programming environment
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Lew wrote:
Lew wrote:
Cygwin, if you use Windows.
Tom Anderson wrote:
Could you explain why?
Because it includes so many useful utilities, e.g., "find" and "ls" and
a bunch of good editors.
Fair enough. It's perhaps worth mentioning that you can get quite a few of
the standard unix tools on Windows without Cygwin:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html
Last time i was hacking on a PC, i found this an easier way to go than
Cygwin - Cygwin is an attempt to pretend you're not on a PC at all, which
can't help but be a patchy illusion, whereas the gnuwin32 stuff just adds
tools to the cmd.exe environment. Mind you, the last time i used Cygwin
was probably 10 years ago, so perhaps i'm comparing apples and extinct
megaflora here.
In my case, it also regularizes my shell environment so that I don't
have to change mentality when I alternate between Linux and Windows.
Yes, that's helpful.
Those who don't use *NIX systems will be less impressed with that,
although the power of, say, "bash" may still appeal even to those who
work exclusively with Windows.
Ah, now bash is the one thing you can't get through gnuwin32. There is at
least one bash port to Windows, but i never managed to get it to work
properly.
tom
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