Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jan 11 16:29:00 GMT 2019
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?
Corinna
(*) It's open source after all. Just fork the existing code base and
continue developing.
--
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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