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Re: bzr smart server


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: bzr smart server
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:36:58 +0300

> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:28:14 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> 
>   On 21/8/2010 11:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Because it's an incompatible environment.  MSYS is a fork of Cygwin,
> It is? I was under the impression that MSYS was an extension of MinGW to 
> give a Posix shell and environment in which to use the MinGW tools.

No.  MSYS is an environment to _build_ MinGW ports (as opposed to
_use_ them).  Its creator forked it from Cygwin for reasons I forgot.
His recommendation is to use MSYS only for building MinGW ports.



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