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From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
>
> There could be an alternative: The "busybox approach". We could develop
> a toolkit that covers all the Unix commands we need for the existing
> build scripts. It would include easy things like cp, mv etc., but also a
> classic "make" (medium difficulty, note that it could reuse the
> godi_make code), and especially a POSIX shell. The latter is a bit of
> work, but not too much. I'd guess the overall effort takes not more than
> 1-2 weeks if done by somebody how knows the semantics of the tools very
> well.

does mingw+msys not already do this? the last time i checked, it
shipped with rxvt, bash and bunch of natively compiled standard posix
utilities.

martin