On Dec 9 16:04, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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