🚀 go-pugleaf

Some of us ex-Unix programmers now work on Win32.  By choice, even.
But just because we left the promised land doesn't mean we have to do
without Unix's rich set of tools.

I've been thinking of collecting all the essential (and free)
programmer's tools for Win32 and putting them on a CD.  With source,
if possible.  If there's enough interest in this I can make copies of
the CD and sell them at cost.  If there's really enough interest I can
make it a subscription deal with quarterly updates.

Here's my tentative list of essential tools (most of them GNU, of
course):

Cygwin <http://cygwin.com/> 5.5 MB:  The complete Unix environment.
(I have an old version and the uncompressed file took up 140 MB, what
happened?)  Also would be nice to get a set of man/info pages.
GNU Emacs <http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html>
28MB:  The preeminent text editor.  I am an Emacs bigot.  Besides, if
you want vi it's small enough to download at 1200 baud :-).
GNU Manuals <http://www.fsf.org/manual/> ?? MB:  How do I get these as
a package?
Ghostscript and GSview <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html>
12.1+ MB:  Postscript and viewer.
EWAN <http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zander/ewan.html> 256KB:  The only
Windows terminal emulator that you can resize like an xterm.  No
source, unfortunately.
Perl <http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/download.html>
13.8 MB:  I personally hate perl, but I can't deny others find it
useful.

Other possibilities:

TeX/LaTeX.
CVS or RCS.
Mozilla.
XFree86.  Maybe wait until they get it running in a window.
The GIMP.  (Would also require GTK+.)
tcl/tk.
Python.

If you are interested let me know!  Comments, questions, suggestions
welcome.  Flames > /dev/null.

Adam