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Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 10 11:06:00 GMT 2014
On Dec 9 16:04, Warren Young wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 8 15:28, Warren Young wrote:
> >> I’ve got in mind the 2-3 times in my memory where Perl has crept into
> >> the minimal install set via some indirect dependency.
> >
> > I still don't grok why everybody is so hot on keeping the base install
> > so very small. Our Base package set is really tiny in comparison
> > with any Linux distro. Perl is default on most of them. Why not
> > for us? Disk space is dirt cheap these days.
>
> I agree with both sides of the argument. A tightly-scoped minimal
> install is a good thing, and it would be a good thing if we could have
> a universally-available programming language that fills the vast gap
> between sh and C. [1]
There is? :)
> It boggles my mind how much is in the Cygwin package repository, and
> then how much more is in Ports. To some extent, this has to be a
> reflection of Sturgeon’s Law. [2]
Isn't that the same for all distros? Cygwin has just a few thousand
packages, Linux distros have 10s of thousands.
> It is possible to install so much within Cygwin that you turn Windows
> into a rather slow Linux distro with a demented kernel. If you’re
> going to do that, why not just switch to Linux or OS X on the desktop,
> and run *Windows* in a VM?
>
> This is as good a time as any to tell anyone who cares that I’ve
> finally done just that: I recently retired my last machine that boots
> natively into Windows. I only have VMs now. I’ll probably be fading
> from the Cygwin scene as a consequence. I expect it to be a slow
> fade, since I still feel the need to pay back some of the value Cygwin
> provided to me in the years before we got mature VM systems.
Oh well. I'm running Windows in VMs only for years and I still didn't
disappear from the project :}
> Therefore: So long, and can I help you find some fish before I go? :)
I'm sorry to read that. In fact I had hoped you would be willing to
look a bit more into the documentation again, after you so kindly pulled
it into the 21st century last year. There's certainly still much room
for improvement.
Thanks for your long-time involvment with Cygwin and bearing with us all
the time. Please stick to us as long as you like.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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