On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:43:15PM -0800, Linda W wrote: > I wondered about this when I found a completely separate package > distribution (that appears to no longer be supported but was located > at http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html). Why didn't they just release > their packages through cygwin/setup? Seems like they have a ton > (http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/en/bestlist.html) of packages for cygwin, > so many that put together a CD of gnu apps that run on cygwin. > > I'd never even heard about them before they went to "no maintenance" > mode...*sigh*...why weren't they developing under the standard > cygwin/setup package model? I was just surprised by all the packages that > were available for cygwin outside of the cygwin project and wondered > why they felt a need to release their packages separately -- they sure > didn't get very good publicity -- I ran into them when I wanted to see > about "cdrecord" being ported to work under cygwin...Apparently it was, > at some point, as well as a bunch more utils. Very strange.
How is that not good publicity? There are a ton of cygwin binaries out there; all you need to find them is usually the package name, "cygwin", and google. I know Gerrit, who maintains a lot of packages, also has a large number of things he's built and put out there with no intention to maintain them. That's really sufficient; without someone responsible for maintaining them, they should only be available unofficially. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
