v0.7.0 Windows zip release no longer provides coreutils.exe

[jayvdb]

Prior releases for Windows provided a coreutils.exe , and the v0.7.0 tarballs for linux and macos include a coreutils binary.

Now when I look in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/download/0.7.0/coreutils-0.7.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip , which is 51Mb, there is no coreutils.exe. Instead there are individual exe's for each util.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/download/0.6.0/coreutils-0.6.0-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip was only about 4Mb, similar to the size of the linux and macos tarballs.

My guess is that this change on Windows v0.7.0 will now mean that cargo binstall coreutils or mise use coreutils (or any other Github releases installer) is going to do something different than it did in v0.6.0, and that could have significant impact on some users.

[oech3]

It is intended. Use MinGW binary for the usecase
But I could include both for MSVC if it is still needed.

But, "both" means coreutils.exe is included to the same archive with individual bins (or we need to have duplicated many jobs to satisfy both usecases).

[oech3]

I recommend to install individual bins for Windows since symlink/hardlink is not common on Windows.