On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 08:57 +0000, Jason Spiro wrote: > Thank you very much for creating and maintaining Cygwin Ports. > > Why aren't the packages in Cygwin Ports part of the http://www.cygwin.com > Cygwin > distribution? This would make the packages easier to install.
Depending on the package in question, any one or more of the following reasons: 1) it provides a newer version or additional features not found in the distro version of the same package; 2) it depends on a package or version only available in Ports but not in the distro; 3) it hasn't been well tested yet; 4) I haven't taken the time to go through the tedious ITP process for the package (I maintain almost 2000 source packages). Once the distro's gcc4 is updated (which should be RSN), then I will be able to move a lot of the overlaps (from the first two) back into the distro. Yaakov Cygwin Ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
