I believe the resistance was mostly for the idea of doing a totally native Win32 type adaptation of the code, with appropriate/required #ifdefs in the code, and most likely NOT using cygwin. I do not recall exactly, but I believe the discussion was aimed mostly at Win32, not necessarily cygwin....
On 08 Nov 2001 11:26:52 -0600, Paul Baker wrote: >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 >======================================================================= >
