On 09/28/2016 04:42 AM, vanadovv@hetnet.nl wrote:
At the moment this seems to be the only way to play with Bash and other Linux tools on a Windows computer.
Yes, I suggested Bash for Windows only for bleeding-edge MS-Windows developers. For non-bleeding-edge, ezwinports and Cygwin are better choices. As I'm sure you know the tz project has always assumed a POSIX-like environment and there's unlikely to be a native MS-Windows port any time soon, so some set of non-Microsoft tools will be needed for MS-Windows developers who don't want to be on the bleeding edge. One other porting note that we ran into behind the scenes with 2016g: to generate a distribution tarball exactly in the same format of the standard distribution, your tar needs to support options like --numeric-owner. For example, because macOS bsdtar lacks these options, although it generates working tarballs these tarballs aren't byte-for-byte identical to the distributed tarballs. This is important for those who need reproducible builds.