On Jan 11 16:40, Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
> On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:30 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jan 11 16:15, 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
> >
> >If somebody is willing to maintain apt-get as package in the Cygwin
> >distro, which includes keeping it running if setup.exe changes, fixing
> >bugs as required(*), by all means,  go ahead.
> >
> >Are you volunteering, by any chance?
> 
> My reply was only meant as a hint, I have no interest in the package,
> but someone (who is on this list I believe) already did:
> 
> https://github.com/cup/sage/issues/20

Nice.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer