CygWin32 and Linux
Edward Avis
EPA@datcon.co.uk
Fri May 8 10:00:00 GMT 1998
>In terms of overlap with Linux, there isn't a lot of potential sharing
>that could be happening I don't think. A possible exception is that
>we might want to use RPMs for binary distribution of individual
>packages.
IMHO Cygwin32 would become much more popular if it came complete with
source and binary RPMs of things like Perl, X11R6.3, Lesstif, and so on.
I don't know if this fits in with Cygnus' product plans, but it seems
to me that every Unix-on-NT toolkit around is trying to outdo the others
by shipping as many utilities as possible in with the package.
Another advantage would be that pristine sources and a well-defined set
of diffs for Cygwin32 could replace the current rather chaotic porting
of programs. That's not to put down the GNUWin32 package report; it's
certainly a useful measure, I just don't think it will scale well to
hundreds of packages.
--
Ed Avis < http://members.tripod.com/~mave >
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