On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:14:50AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: > Mmh you don't have any *nix (unix/linux) installed to run nixos, do you? > So the perfect case would be integrating the cygwin.dll stuff into the > nix windows port.
Well, that is what I meant. cygwin.dll provides a lot of unix 'mapping'. I was thinking having packages even without cygwin.dll. Cygwin may have some downsides - it is years ago I used it, but disk access was pretty slow. If that is correct I would prefer native compiles. > And not all packages must depend on *nix tools. Eg the > whole .net system could be wrapped into expressions.. Java/Maven tools > don't need autoconf as well. Using cygwin as dependency is a nice way to > get started - don't know wether I want to take time to do more. > > > I am also interested - btw - for some biology packages. > BTW what are they about? Is it easy to describe them in 2 sentences? Tools for biologists. Usually pretty specialized stuff. One of the problems I regularly encounter is people having problems getting software installed on various flavours of Linux. It is a pretty good use case for NIX. Pj. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
