Python application launcher (for Python code)

[Chris Warrick]

On 21 February 2017 at 20:21, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote:
>> On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>> > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be
>> > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of
>> > energy switching right now]
>>
>> You know, I'm always reluctant to recommend it, because it can
>> definitely get you tied in knots.  But you're about the ideal candidate
>> for looking into https://www.cygwin.com/
>
> There are other ways to get "shell and unix-utilities" for Windows
> that are less "drastic" than Cygwin: they don't try to provide a
> complete a Unix development environment or the illusion of Unix
> filesystem semantics.  [Remember: a Unix shell without a set of
> accompanying utilitys is pretty useless, since Unix shells don't have
> all of the "built-in" commands that Windows shells do.]
>
> NB: I haven't used any of these lately...
>
>   http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>   http://www.mingw.org/      (look for msys)
>   https://gist.github.com/evanwill/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f058  (git's bash-terminal)
>   https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/
>
> There were a couple another very highly recommended commercial Unix
> shell+utilities products (MKS Toolkit, Interix) that I used to
> use. But AFAIK, they all got bought and killed by Microsoft.

Git Bash, or basically msys, is pretty reasonable. But if you are on
Windows 10, you might like the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux
(aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) more — it’s real Linux that runs
alongside Windows, but less crazy than Cygwin.

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