>> >> - parallel: run multiple jobs at once >> >> I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU >> parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). > > Hmm. I wasn't aware of GNU parallel, and I'm not sure how that sort of > problem is generally handled. Possibly that could be broken out into a > separate package to make it easier for folk to install one or the other? > I considered and decided against breaking the entire lot into separate > packages, but this is perhaps a good argument for at least separating > that.
This has been a long source of tension between moreutils' author and the debian packager (probably fedora and other distros too). I don't know off the top of my head what solution those distros have come up with for the name conflict but they may be doing something worth investigating and imitating. I have made frequent use of mispipe and ts, and would probably use other pieces of moreutils if I remembered them better, so I'd use and appreciate a cygwin package of them - assuming a solution is found to the potential name conflict.
