[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

[Steven Penny]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:44:44, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Both dash and bash are in Base, installed by default, and both are login
> shells, while dash requires only cygwin1.dll to run, and can be used during
> setup, before other libraries or utilities are installed.

Yeah, I did not mean to say login shell. I am not sure the proper way to phrase
it, so i will just put it like this:

Dash is good for writing scripts, personally I prefer it over Bash. However it
is garbage as an interactive shell. It does not even support readline, and that
is fine because its role is to be a fast shell for scripts.

That is why I did not include it before. I would add that your mail is not on
topic. The point of my email was not "Bash should be the dep", it was "some
shell should be a dep".


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