Re: [bug #46007] texi2dvi Msys support

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: address@hidden (Vincent Belaïche)
> > Cc: Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> ,
> >     Gavin Smith <address@hidden>,
> >     Texinfo <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:55:27 +0200
> > 
> > Well you are meaning that there are only two alternatives cygwin (all in
> > `:') and djgpp (all in `;'), and MSYS is really a bastard case.
> 
> MSYS is not bastard, it just wasn't meant to be used in this capacity.
> If you need something like that, just use Cygwin instead.

I personnally only use GNU/Linux, but I have colleagues who use MSYS as
a generic shell, in particular when they use a software that comes with
MSYS (grass, some python).  Other use Cygwin.  A disadvantage of Cygwin
is that it seems to be quite slow.

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Pat