From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7788 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2019 01:49:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7679 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jan 2019 01:49:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=shot, Engineer, maintained, interact X-HELO: mail-qt1-f177.google.com Received: from mail-qt1-f177.google.com (HELO mail-qt1-f177.google.com) (209.85.160.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Jan 2019 01:49:23 +0000 Received: by mail-qt1-f177.google.com with SMTP id r14so23110568qtp.1 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:49:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gOuyM/e1AOlrB712upO56/nBnz6/lDzh3Sn1UUAQHvk=; b=hzmD2wIf6mhRC0oPkWdtouD/ad+ms1xAwG8Ax/0uV2N080+zbKYS7E+dRFKngsbpbm ub9V3c8lXIcdhW+Z8TezJsiZOyznI6FZCz1MTurp84tBvpIq8IZUL4PQApE8eL2xFXb9 Pp/BX5CE/nqBYQ0IukrA0jsQkLv0gYyEbIkaUtmu5X7QlxU3OEti+6MJSSqXv+4LAVep MdBWTW93n5nNUx0gU1ANFDcIH3r+dtHdAg3tVqDwL+qkgrb3dhfZgwz7gA4wvXvlL1v+ YAX6FQdEdd4py8ceMMgX1WIpTfa0hbvoNI4blkjFuDdq1uja4+v33tNgnF+cWlAHyMg0 lXsQ== Return-Path: <6thstreetradio@gmail.com> Received: from ?IPv6:2604:6000:ff40:3700:4df5:9563:d3cb:55aa? ([2604:6000:ff40:3700:4df5:9563:d3cb:55aa]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t40sm49996551qth.46.2019.01.12.17.49.20 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:49:20 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: davek@6thstreetradio.org Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <86acdcb9-9067-0f55-2543-6d100aaa7cae@gmail.com> <336971b1-df3d-64fc-f271-74db7b83c83e@gmail.com> From: David Dombrowsky <6thstreetradio@gmail.com> Message-ID: <0eb5e1b2-551e-c80c-a815-ae2b14480ac8@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 01:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-01/txt/msg00092.txt.bz2 On 1/11/19 11:15 AM, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2019 3:50 PM David Dombrowsky wrote: >> On 1/11/19 8:40 AM, E. Madison Bray wrote: >>> I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by >>> Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there >>> even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact >>> that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem. >>> Maybe it should be. >> >> YES PLEASE! Cygwin is awesome and this would put it firmly into the >> first class of required windows programs/systems. > > It's dead: > > https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/blob/master/status.md Bring Out Yer Dead! What about package managers that don't interact with cygwin setup? Why not build `apt-get` et. al. to install to /opt/? Yes I know it would be a system within a system within a system, but it might be worth a shot. This, especially if the "cygwin setup" package manager isn't open source (I thought everything cygwin was, but I guess not). -- David Dombrowsky, Software Engineer davek@6thstreetradio.org | 518-374-3204 https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-dombrowsky-94334415 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple