On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:36:33PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:28:34PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of >>>> running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. >>> http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ >>> (Command line installer project.) >>> >>> Doesn't handle RPMs, only Cygwin packages. Does have a apt-get style >>> interface. I'm thinking RPM support is a bit beside the point? >> >> Nope. A real package manager would be very nice. > >Ah, so you aren't a user expecting other distros RPMs to "just work" >with Cygwin,
Do I think that a linux RPM would work on Cygwin? No, of course not. I wrote the "What Isn't Cygwin" words on the Cygwin web page. >there are specific package management functions in a RPM-like system >you want? Or do you think Cygwin would benefit from using a standard >package format for ported packages over the custom format we currently >use? Just in case you're not getting this: http://cygwin.com/who.html But, yes, I think that the project would benefit from a standard package manager and, since Cygwin is owned by Red Hat and currently hosted on a Red Hat-owned site, I think it makes sense for the package manager to be rpm based. There are barriers to implementing rpm in Cygwin, the most frequently mentioned being the fact that a cygwin process can't easily replace cygwin1.dll or any other running executables. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
