From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28535 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2011 18:01:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 28519 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Nov 2011 18:01:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_CG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-wy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-wy0-f171.google.com) (74.125.82.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:01:27 +0000 Received: by wyh11 with SMTP id 11so943597wyh.2 for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.78.2 with SMTP id x2mr14271248wiw.10.1320775285567; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.195] (93-33-99-98.ip44.fastwebnet.it. [93.33.99.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e40sm2568110wbp.3.2011.11.08.10.01.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:01:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EB96E90.3010707@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:01:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; 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/msg00046.txt.bz2 On 11/8/2011 8:19 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I think it's kinda cool for cygwin be one of the first (not THE first; >> it's already in BSD ports IIUC) to provide these tools, so that's why I >> voted +1. > > ^That is actually the type of answer I was looking for. I wanted to > know why people thought the package was needed in the distro. > > > cgf Of course there is no "need" for such package, but I noticed that all distro have some astronomical package and at first glance they are not more used that Astrometry. The time taken to approve is likely linked to such particular usage. I looked at the website and they have a community, a mailing list, a bug tracker and some planning. It has some usage and I can image that porting to windows with cygwin is much simpler than trying another route. For that reason I voted +1. I built it using one of the first trial and I noticed that the build system is crude and every utility is static linked, so personally my preference will be a smaller package using dynamic linking; but it is a personal estetic opinion. If the package size is a problem we can put it as a condition Regards Marco