Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: >> Eric Blake wrote: >>>> I have cygwin install but I can not find the >>>> implementation of Unix 'at' command. >>>> >>> Because no one has ported an open source version of it >>> to cygwin yet. >>> >> ---- >> Some packages might be more easily ported if RPM's >> became a common way to package cygwin packages. Much >> of the porting effort is in converting to the cygwin installer. >> Someone asked about logrotation a while back and I was >> surprised no one had ported a logrotate package. I pulled >> the source RPM from my SuSE distro, and was able to >> produce a binary RPM in about 10 minutes, then I realized >> RPM's weren't a desirable format for cygwin packages. >> >> I'm sure there's some good reason for converting all >> packages to yet another installer, but I'm not sure I know >> what they are. One side effect, though -- it can put a >> damper on porting programs over when most (or all) of the >> work is in converting to the a different installer. > > > Support for RPM and DEB packages were always intended for setup.exe. > It's just no one has added this support yet. Anyone who's interested > is certainly welcome to provide patches to reach this goal. I'm sure > they will be thoughtfully considered.
I've entertained fantasies of making integrating dpkg into setup.exe, and making Cygwin packages be in .deb format. It's a pretty huge undertaking though, and somehow I can't see myself getting around to it any time soon. Max.
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