Bruno's Blog

Extra Cygwin packages I'm a big fan of Cygwin on Windoze to get the Unix/Linux look and feel. I can't stand the Windoze command prompt and their Power Shell is ridiculous. I don't want to get on another rant but I thought Power Shell was supposed to be their attempt at making Windoze more like Unix but it isn't. Yes, I have looked into WSL and it's ok but I'll stick with Cygwin. One of the things I don't like about Cygwin is that their default list of packages just isn't enough for me. After I install it on a new system, I often find myself adding additional packages one-at-a-time when I discover I need them. I finally decided to be a little proactive and keep track of packages I had to install. It looks like my beautiful formatting of this page has been trashed somehow and I apologize for that. I'll work on it. My extra packages Package Comments git Gotta have this! pip2 Yes, I'm still a proud Python2 guy! An...