[ITP] astrometry.net-0.38-1

[Peter Li]

On 10/4/2011 1:02 AM, Jussi Kantola wrote:
<snip>
> It's a package that our project
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/astromate/) would benefit immensely
> from, as the routine of installing cygwin, selecting (all of the) the
> required packages and compiling astrometry.net is beyond the skills of
> the target audience (amateur astronomers).  Not included in any of the
> major distros.
<snip>

I'm curious, partly for myself.  Would it not be a fairly simple 
alternative for your users if you distributed a binary package and told 
them that installing Cygwin is a prereq for running your binary 
(assuming it is)?  List, is there a reason this should not be done?

Thanks,
Peter