Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't

[Ariel Burbaickij <ariel dot burbaickij at gmail dot com>]

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:22:54 -0400, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> This is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of standard packages which are missing
> from the cygwin distribution:
> 
> bind
> coreutils
> mailx
> ping
> sendmail
> screen
> 
> In some cases we have packages which offer similar-but-not-identical behavior
> but in some cases (ping, screen) we don't have anything close, AFAIK.
> 
> I'm sure that there must be other packages that are missing.  Can anyone add
> to the above list?  Are we missing any standard development packages, for
> instance?
> 
> You can probably see where I'm going with this.  I'd like to see if there
> are any volunteers to offer and support these packages.  Any of the above
> is guaranteed to make it into the distribution as long as the packaging
> is ok.
> 
> cgf
> 
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