Eli is one the few free software veterans who exclusively works on Windows. His ports are excellent and native Windows binaries wherever possible ("native" meaning: no MSYS at all). It's not that "native" is always better, but it is good to have the choice. Especially w.r.t. GNU Make, I found the MSYS version to be very hard to reason with, since the additional MSYS path conversion makes things even more complicated than it already is...