Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 Chris Cormie wrote: > I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface > resembling apt-get. This is the package that I've been dreaming of for years! > It would be great if some folks tried out the initial release and > provided me with some feedback. I

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cormie
Correction: setup doesn't require Cygwin to be closed if not working on core packages. That makes sense. Chris. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cormie
There's no maturity requirement as such. For a package such as cyg-apt that doesn't exist in other distros, you have to get 5 positive votes from current package maintainers. A clear explanation of what cyg-apt does that setup doesn't, would probably go a long way towards that. Thanks for that

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > On first look, it seems good. Would you consider packaging it as a > Cygwin > > package? You'd get more people using it that way. > > > > If you haven't maintained a Cygwin package before, it wouldn't be > much work > > to get this one going, since it's so simple. I don't think I'd wa

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Cormie
> On first look, it seems good. Would you consider packaging it as a Cygwin > package? You'd get more people using it that way. > > If you haven't maintained a Cygwin package before, it wouldn't be much work > to get this one going, since it's so simple. I don't think I'd want to > maintain

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Cormie
Jacob Jacobson wrote: > Chris Cormie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface resembling >> apt-get. >> It's still a work in progress, but functional (commands below.) >> http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ > > [cyg-apt-1.0.4-1$:530] ./cyg-apt setup > cyg-apt: c

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface resembling > apt-get. > It's still a work in progress, but functional (commands below.) > http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ > > It would be great if some folks tried out the initial release and > provided me with some feedback. On fir

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-21 Thread Jacob Jacobson
Chris Cormie wrote: Hi, I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface resembling apt-get. It's still a work in progress, but functional (commands below.) http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ [cyg-apt-1.0.4-1$:530] ./cyg-apt setup cyg-apt: creating /c/home//.cyg-apt. getting /etc/se