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Subject: Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote
> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2

Well I have to say I was skeptical until I saw this

    $ bash --version
    GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)

However this distribution is huge

    $ du -hs 'C:\cross64'
    763M    C:\cross64

Do they have some kind of installer/package manager yet?

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