Python application launcher (for Python code)

[Deborah Swanson]

Chris Warrick wrote, on February 21, 2017 11:26 AM
> 
> 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/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f
058  (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.

-- 
Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
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Thanks Chris, I kind of thought useful software like this would
resurface in some form, and you given me msys' new name (Git Bash), or
one of them anyway.