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testdelacc1yesterday at 5:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

A fair question is why this fork of coreutils is required when the original Rust rewrite (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/) supports Windows, in addition to Linux, macOS and wasm.

The reason seems to be a few windows specific fixes (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/compare/main...microsoft...) which can probably be upstreamed into the main repo.


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hootzyesterday at 5:38 PM

Apparently the creator of the fork is also a maintainer of some uutils repositories.

NetMageSCWyesterday at 6:13 PM

So “supports Windows” doesn’t mean supports Windows.

egorfineyesterday at 6:29 PM

The original one is not virtue signaling enough