On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > Wouldn't it be great to port dpkg to DOS/Win95? It then could be used by > > shareware/freeware authors... And people would be biased towards Debian > > when adopting Linux.... > I'm quite interested in this too. Klee Dienes also said that he was working > on doing this (using Cygnus' cygwin32 package). I'm not sure what the state > of his efforts are though, he seems pretty busy.
Yes.. but... * Windows users probably don't need dependencies. Programs doesn't usally depend on external libraries... * Windows users like to move files... =) * Would authors adopt dpkg? Perhaps a more realistic goal is to port dpkg to other popular UNIX variants, and `market' it as a piece of software independent of Debian. (I was told that there is a SGI port being made!). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | Try visiting #debian in Undernet (us.undernet.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The channel of the debian developers =)
