On Dec 10, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> 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. I just re-did the count, and I get 4,453 for the Cygwin official repo (x86) plus another 6,556 in Ports. My point, though, is that I’m surprised Cygwin is even in this space. Back when I started with Cygwin, it was little more than a POSIX.1 userland. I understand “nonstandard” additions like ssh, rsync, a basic X server, lots of libraries, and lots of development tools. What I don’t understand is WindowMaker, KDE, music notation software, etc. It seems to me that a lot of this is best left to Windows proper, or native apps for it. Of course I don’t need to understand it. It’s someone’s itch, and it pleases them to help Cygwin out by scratching it. >> I only have VMs now. I’ll probably be fading >> from the Cygwin scene as a consequence. > > Oh well. I'm running Windows in VMs only for years and I still didn't > disappear from the project :} It’s a bit different for you, isn’t it? For you, it’s a key part of your employment. For me, it’s been a means to an end, while I waited for the computing world to change enough that I could get off Windows. It’s not that I don’t want to continue helping with Cygwin, but that it’s no longer a thing I use often. > 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. I kind of thought I’d been kicked off that project, after leaving the autodep stuff hanging. :) Point me at a problem area. If it annoys me enough, I will be motivated to fix it. As for your new nsswitch type docs, the first pass still needs to be done by you, or whoever knows what’s going on. But, I can still make a cleanup pass on it.
