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RE: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:30 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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?
My reply was only meant as a hint, I have no interest in the package,
but someone (who is on this list I believe) already did:
https://github.com/cup/sage/issues/20