I would like to package and maintain stow for Cygwin. Stow is an installation manager for local software packages. It installs packages by creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. This allows you to keep packages separate, while making them appear to be installed in the same place.
Stow is available in the current stable, testing, and unstable releases of Debian, e.g. http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/stow. Source homepage: http://directory.fsf.org/stow.html Source download: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/stow/stow-1.3.3.tar.gz Language: Perl License: GPL setup.hint: sdesc: "Manage local software installations" ldesc: "Stow manages the installation of local software packages by creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. This allows you to keep packages separate, while making them appear to be installed in the same place." category: Admin Utils requires: perl The Cygwin packages are ready for upload, at the URLs below. Please upload them once they've undergone any necessary review. Thanks, Andrew. http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2
