> On Jan 11, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 11 16:40, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: >> On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:30 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jan 11 16:15, Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: >>>> On Friday, January 11, 2019 3:50 PM David Dombrowsky wrote: >>>>> On 1/11/19 8:40 AM, E. Madison Bray wrote: >>>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> YES PLEASE! Cygwin is awesome and this would put it firmly into the >>>>> first class of required windows programs/systems. >>>> >>>> It's dead: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/blob/master/status.md >>> >>> If somebody is willing to maintain apt-get as package in the Cygwin >>> distro, which includes keeping it running if setup.exe changes, fixing >>> bugs as required(*), by all means, go ahead. >>> >>> Are you volunteering, by any chance? >> >> My reply was only meant as a hint, I have no interest in the package, >> but someone (who is on this list I believe) already did: >> >> https://github.com/cup/sage/issues/20 > > Nice.
No, actually, it's not nice at all. See https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/issues/73 and read down to alphapapa's comment. A little googling will show the comment is accurate. -- 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
