Joshua Daniel Franklin writes: > Jan, cyg-apt appears to be able to install packages on Cygwin as > well as Linux.
Yes. > Do you know if it has regularly been used in such a manner? I'm using it, but I haven't had any success or bug reports. >The biggest concern would be that if running under Cygwin it would >not be able to install cygwin1.dll. Right. You cannot upgrade cygwin1.dll or python on Cygwin and there even was no check for that. Fixed. > While setup.exe is the only supported way of installing packages on > Cygwin, I would like to add this information to the FAQ as another > option for users who cannot use setup.exe to select packages (linux > or blindness have come up several times). Maybe it's too early for that. Also, cyg-apt is end of life. It is to be replaced by a similar script based on our new Grand Unified Binaries (GUB), but that has only partial Cygwin support, and no support yet for downloading, caching and client-side use. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
