> I presented (in this thread I believe) some of my
> arguments about why to care about w32 too in my reply to
> RMS about a portable mini-bash. I might be wrong, my
> arguments might be bad, but I tried to give some
> arguments.
>
> I don't know much about it, but isn't that what MinGW is
> supposed to provide?
I think Lennart's suggestion is about a having a small POSIX shell
that can be bundled with Emacs (and other programs) to use on
systems that do not have a POSIX shell by default. MinGW/MSYS is an
external dependency which means an extra thing to go wrong for
users.
I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though -
the shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until
it has been built by a bootstrap.
Exactly, wouldn't it be just easier to request the user to install
whatever POSIX shell that is required in INSTALL or similar?