Ok, except for one small problem/issue. The versions of apt and dpkg that I am building are NOT native wintel apps. They are being porting with/to the cygwin environment, and as such, will NOT run if cygwin is not installed. I don't know about you, but I for one, and not interested in duplicating the man-years of work that the cygwin developers have already invested by trying to create a native port of apt/dpkg,
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:46:45 +0100, smoerk wrote: >but cygwin could also be a debian package. if a package depends on >cygwin, the cygwin package will automatically installed. > >On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:51:22 -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: > >>They could only coexist if you are running cygwin. However, >>in the case where someone gets a native win32 port >>of dpkg/apt running, then you would have a case where >>folks would NOT be able to run cygwinized packages within their >>environment, and so they shouldn't be able to grab the >>packages. > >>>couldn't native and cygwin ports coexist in the same port? does it make >>>sense to have two versions of a program? > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
