joefitzgerald/packer-windows — pull request #5 by dylanmei (2013-10-09 23:48:21+00:00)
Title: Using openssh

Cygwin is a moving target due to the way it's installed and the way it fetches latest packages. OpenSSH 6.2 is stable and, while not offering the same kind of bash/sh support and features that Cygwin gave us -- chmod, sleep, wget, etc -- between traditional windows command-line tools and Powershell we have all the gadgets we should need.