Windows Support / Installer

[CyanideX]

Would be nice to have a simple yet advanced manager for my server on Windows machines.

[khoek]

Just a heads up, in case you weren't aware.

MSM is fundamentally a bash script. This means that it conforms to the *.sh specification and can be executed by *.sh interpreters. Windows has no native way to do this however, which means that you need to install a POSIX emulation layer (such as cygwin) so that bash can run on windows, or MSM needs to be entirely re-written from scratch.

Obviously and entire re-write doesn't sound too appealing, so the use of cygwin (or a clone) is necessary. You can actually install cygwin yourself and attempt to install MSM through it, and it might work.

[kjkazinski]

Instead of installing cygwin you can install the gnu windows utilities.  There is a bash shell in these utilities.
 
 

[khoek]

@kjkazinski Correct, however cygwin (or MinGW) sets up a file directory hierarchy which is similar to what the MSM installer expects when you run it (i.e. /opt/, /etc/, etc.).