On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I think your message would be better addressed to the debian-devel mailing > list, who I have copied in to this reply so that more Debian Developers are > aware of it. (There's also the Apt developer's mailing list at the > harder-to-discover de...@lists.debian.org who I have not copied in, as they > are > likely all on -devel anyway) > > Personally (although I am not an Apt developer) I think it sounds like an > interesting idea, and there is some precedent as APT was the basis of the > "Fink" package management system for Apple Mac OS X. Not re-inventing the > wheel is a very good idea, lots of package management problems have been > discovered and solved with APT already (and it's sad to see things like Ruby > gems, Go packages etc. re-discover the very same problems over and over again)
Looks like Microsoft went with a Linux syscall emulation layer for the Windows kernel: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
