On 24 September 2010 18:04, Brunner, Brian T. BBrunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
No Windows functionalities are lost by installing Cygwin. Cygwin has the SAME uninstall that Windows does: install CentOS.
cwrsync comes with an uninstallable package and works OK, makes copying loads of files across Windows boxen bearable. The commercial alternatives to Cygwin are not very good either. When I raised a ticket with one of them because a simple call to a binary inside a shell was so incredibly slow they told me that they were twice as fast as their main competitor, Cygwin. When I mentioned to them the same script runs literally hundred times faster on CentOS and that's the real competition, they shut up.
I have to admit I always thought the reason I preferred resorting to cwcygwin when such problems knocked on my own door was my own lack of knowledge on some uberuseful tool in Windows but it appears that's not the case, as an out of the box scriptable platform, it is still as pathetic as it was 10-15 years ago (even probably worse since in Win3.1 I could record macros for the GUI).