Gow (Gnu On Windows)
- Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
pro:
Covers most cons of the GNU utilities for Win32
- Uses convenient installer to provide easy install and remove.
- Explorer integration opens DOS-box in current folder.
- All files contained in a single directory in a standard C:\Program Files path.
- All binaries are conveniently installed into the Windows PATH
cons:
- Path to folder with binaries is appended to the end of the windows search path. This implies shell scripts will see the windows version of 'sort' or 'find' not the Unix/GNU equivalent.
