On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 1:23 AM R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Hi, > > following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html > > I wondered how many users cygwin have. > > > > Younger people seem to prefer MSYS due to its use of pacman. > Admittedly, it is very convenient. Otherwise Cygwin (or MSYS) has > always been accepted (at least amongst everyone I talk to) as a > necessity.
(with apologies for replying to such an old thread; I've been trying to do some email catchup) I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem. Maybe it should be. Although the old setup.exe has its uses, and isn't too bad when you use the command-line flags either, almost always whenever I make a new cygwin install, unless I know immediately what packages I'm going to need, I usually just install the bare minimum I need to get apt-cyg working (usually wget, plus a few other core utilities), and then use apt-cyg from thereon out. In my experience it works really well, and is just as good as having pacman or whatever. [1] https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg -- 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
