On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 08:21, Mark Paulus wrote: > I have opened up a project on sourceforge under the > heading of debian-cygwin. It's a partial win32 project, and > a partial un*x project, as my underlying premise was to use > the debian package management system and tools to help > enhance the cygwin environment. As such, it would rely on > the cygwin environment for it's support, and much of it's > "un*xness". There was a discussion on debian-devel about > this, and it received much flak, but I was thinking that I would > go ahead with it anyway. Simply because I use cygwin, and > I know there are others who do, and while Window's isn't > free and all that jazz, I believe many others can and will > benefit from a debian approach to package management for > cygwin.
How else would you do a *nix like system on win32 other than cygwin? I just joined this list, but I have to say I'm surprised you received resistance. > I have also attempted to set up the beginnings of a debian > package archive on sourceforge, but once again, I need to do > some research on the fundamentals of setting up a package > archive, and that takes time to do research (which is in short > supply right now....) Sounds like a good start. I would love to help too, but my free time is also in rather short supply :-( -- ======================================================================= Paul J. Baker Internet Systems Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where2GetIt.com =======================================================================
