From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25094 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2011 12:44:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 25077 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Nov 2011 12:44:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:44:23 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id pA8CiLTQ022440 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 07:44:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EB9241B.7070803@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:44:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] astrometry.net-0.38-1 References: <6r0p87d36jnok922ec2mkfjqpog218994j@4ax.com> <4E8F0AA2.4060402@gmail.com> <4EB3865A.2060400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4EB45567.5030500@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4EB7EF3D.8090004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20111107161723.GB4738@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4EB8B4E9.4090307@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20111108071940.GB13401@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20111108071940.GB13401@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 On 11/8/2011 2:19 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Cygwin is supposed to be like a Linux distro. Including packages which > come with Linux distros is a no-brainer. Including a large, specialized > package which is not commonly found on Linux and which has a small user > base is not a no-brainer. [...] > Given the fact that the votes needed to trickle in over the course of > more than a month, it seems that most people don't feel very strongly > about including this package. I understand that the OP wants to have a > convenient way of distributing it to the small number of people who need > it but I don't think that is necessarily a good enough reason for the > package to occupy disk space and bandwidth on sourceware.org and > mirrors, for potential package support to show up in the cygwin mailing > list, and for someone to take time to upload updates to sourceware.org. > > I was wondering if anyone else felt like I did about this package. If > it hadn't required many weeks to get approval + more weeks to get > packaging worked out, it would have gone in without comment from me. > Since it did drag on and required multiple pleading messages to keep > things moving, it certainly seems like there isn't a lot of enthusiasm > for getting this in. > > The bottom line is that I was trying to ask why people voted +1. If it > was just to "help the guy out" then that's not a really good reason for > the package to be in the distro. If it was because people thought this > was "kinda cool..." then that would imply that there was more thought > involved. I was the last person to vote +1, and I have to admit that it was mostly to help the guy out. I regret that I didn't give it more thought. Now that I've seen this discussion, I am no longer in favor of including the package in the distro. I think it would make more sense for the OP to set up his own repository. Ken