From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2442 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2001 10:23:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 2391 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 10:23:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www1.translationforge) (212.11.36.58) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 10:23:25 -0000 Received: from there (station.translationforge [192.168.1.100] (may be forged)) by www1.translationforge (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBKANNx14487 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:23:23 +0100 Message-Id: <200112201023.fBKANNx14487@www1.translationforge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jean-Michel POURE Reply-To: jm.poure@freesurf.fr Organization: Translationforge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RPM 4 under cygwin Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:02:00 -0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <4.3.1.2.20011219103326.0166d180@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <200112200844.fBK8iQx13965@www1.translationforge> <3C21A9B6.30702@ece.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <3C21A9B6.30702@ece.gatech.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00997.txt.bz2 Le Jeudi 20 D=E9cembre 2001 10:04, vous avez =E9crit : > Don't like my superior tone? =A0I don't blame you -- it's very irritating > to be "talked down to" as if one was a child playing with adult toys. > Want to know why I took such an abrasive tone? Sorry for my tone. In fact, I like RPM and would like very much to see my beloved Cygwin suppo= rt=20 RPM packages (natively or not).=20 The reason is rather selfish : I would like to start an RPM installation=20 project for PHP code (for libraries and applications, not the executable=20 itself). Communities (PEAR, BinaryCloud) propose XML based installation solutions. I= n=20 my humble opinion, the proposed solutions will never reach the power of RPM= .=20 As a result, existing PHP libraries are not widely reused/shared by common= =20 programs. For example, PhpMyAdmin and PhpPgAdmin do not make an extensive u= se=20 of common libraries. People start several projects that come down to the sa= me=20 things (i.e. PhpOracleAdmin, PhpMyAdmin, ..., Nuke, PowerNuke, etc...). Another example is pgAdmin, the windows administration interface of=20 PostgreSQL that I contribute to. We use an $ installation program which doe= s=20 not have the power and flexibility of RPM. Furthermore, pgAdmin is based on= =20 pgSchema (abstraction layer) which could be installed and maintained as a=20 separete library if we had RPM. OK, I stop here as this is not the Cygwin concern. The need for RPM under=20 Windows is general. The power of RPM is to be able to share material. Any R= PM=20 solution under Windows is welcome (based on Cygwin or not).=20 Also, thank you all for this great Cygwin software. I hope to be one day ab= le=20 to install KDE2 from Cygwin... Best regards, Jean-Michel POURE -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/