NASA cygwin approach

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 25 19:15:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:08:43AM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>On 6/24/2012 12:34 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>
>> Heasoft is a large package but suggesting to install all cygwin
>> seems a bit too drastic....
>
>Indeed.  I hope all those HEASoft users are enjoying their copies of 
>doxygen, gnucap, lilypond, nfrotz, qsf, and sudoku.
>
>(Not picking on any Cygwin package maintainers in particular here.  I've 
>just randomly cherry-picked some packages unlikely to be of direct use 
>in X-ray astronomy, which seems to be the focus of HEASoft.)

A likely story.  I now expect a mass exodus of affronted package
maintainers.

Thanks a lot.

cgf



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