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Re: [ITP] cygport

From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 23:15:32 -0400
Subject: Re: [ITP] cygport
References: <445A8522.6060500@users.sourceforge.net> <cee932cf0605041622y2948c01ahd6e4513b7c9e6069@mail.gmail.com> <445A8FF2.9090507@users.sourceforge.net>

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:

and was written with Cygwin in mind by someone
(namely, me) with a repository of 1400 Cygwin binary packages.

And that, right there, is why cygport should go into the distro. It's painful to manage 40-50 packages with g-b-s -- 1400 would be downright impossible.

+1 from me. (Heck, I might even convert some of my gbs packages over, eventually...)

--
Chuck

References:
- [ITP] cygport
  - From: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
- Re: [ITP] cygport
  - From: Jason Alonso
- Re: [ITP] cygport
  - From: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)

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