Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

[Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>]

On 2017-11-02 16:38, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 02.11.2017 um 04:19 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>> On 2017-10-31 12:11, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> Am 27.10.2017 um 00:10 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>>>> Am 26.10.2017 um 18:13 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>>>>> On 2017-10-25 15:18, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>> Am 25.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>>>>>>> On 2017-10-25 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2017-10-25 00:29, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Am 25.10.2017 um 00:19 schrieb Angelo Graziosi:
>>>>>>>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Mintty 2.8.0 simplifies WSL integration a lot.
>>>>>>>>>>> In Cygwin, you can simply start e.g. mintty --WSL=Ubuntu (add
>>>>>>>>>>> -~ to start in
>>>>>>>>>>> the WSL home).
>>>>>>>>>> Does it mean that 2.8.0 does not need wslbridge [*] any more?
>>>>>>>>> No, sorry, I forgot to mention that wslbridge would have to be
>>>>>>>>> installed
>>>>>>>>> in /bin to make this work.
>>>>>>>> As it is not a Cygwin package, I have installed wslbridge in
>>>>>>>> /usr/local/bin/,
>>>>>>>> which is in the system Path in Windows format, so also in the
>>>>>>>> Cygwin path in
>>>>>>>> Unix format - will this work?
>>>>>>> Would a symlink, winsymlink, or .lnk as /bin/wslbridge to
>>>>>>> /usr/local/bin/?
>>>>>> Why don't you just try it? Both wslbridge and wslbridge-backend must
>>>>>> reside in
>>>>>> /bin, hard links will work of course.
>>>>> It looks like without the Fall Update --WSL= does not work with either
>>>>> no/default distribution found, and the same result with a variety of
>>>>> obvious names:
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice if --WSL did the right thing for legacy installs also.
>>>> Yes, I am aware of this gap, see
>>>> https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/64
>>> This should be working now with mintty 2.8.1. Please try.
>> This is now working nicely with --WSL and symlinks from
>> /usr/local/bin/wslbridge* to /usr/bin/.
>> Using mintty makes cross-checking Cygwin vs Linux operation very pleasant.
>>
>> [Nitpick: with --WSL, argument "-" does not find DefaultUserName in
>> BasePath/rootfs/etc/passwd and launch the default shell as the login shell:
>> /bin/wslbridge: Exit 1.
>> error: could not exec '-': No such file or directory]
> Both features, finding the default user and starting a login shell, would depend
> on improved wslbridge support.
> About "-", I've submitted an issue:
> https://github.com/rprichard/wslbridge/issues/18
> 
>> Thanks for all your efforts since you adopted this package, in updating it to
>> modern standards, all the Unicode, vtterm, and xterm support you have added, all
>> the new features and improvements in every release, adaptation for WSL, all the
>> fixes you constantly make, and your frequent releases.
> Thanks for flattering me :) Sounds good after all the people asking for ever
> more features, silly ones as well as good ones.

You and Ryan have done a stellar job of making Windows, Cygwin, and WSL more
useful for everyone who has come across your projects.

> Actually, after the WSL and Virtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency should
> become lower now.
> I'd still like to bundle the package with a number of themes and perhaps bell
> sounds, to populate the config directory not only with localization files. I've
> so far hesitated because I don't want to get involved in copyright discussions.
> Any idea or opinion?

Leverage the Unix GUI desktop projects with Cygwin compatible licenses.
There are a lot of themes, icon sets, sounds, and other resources available
which are not available in Cygwin, but are in other distros.

That's why I like WSL being easier to use with Cygwin: I can apt install or
apt-get build-dep and apt-get source --compile packages unavailable on Cygwin,
and use the resources or source, sharing directly between Cygwin, Ubuntu, and
Windows.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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