Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:27:31 +0100 Message-ID: <3E804EAB00019620@mss4n.bluewin.ch> In-Reply-To: From: "Yann Crausaz" Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Your views are right, BUT poeple who were use to work under *NIX (like me) really like to find known tools as they have to change their working environment , and poeple trying to execute *NIX binaries under Cygwin will always exist ! Don't you think so ? >-- Message original -- >Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:54:36 +0100 (CET) >From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak >To: Shankar Unni >cc: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available > > >On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: >> Yann Crausaz wrote: >> > The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's >> > a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple >> > really use RPM under Cygwin ? >> The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as > >> a possible replacement for the current installation system (if anyone >> considers RPM, and its associated GUIs, an improvement, that is). >I can see it now: >"I downloaded the abcdef RPM from my local LUG mirror and it didn't work >- >why?" >.. umm.. Linux executable? > >I really think it is a Good Thing to have a Windows application that has > >no equivalent under *NIX take care of Cygwin installation - only a few >days ago someone tried to run what he called a "Standard Binary" (i.e. a > >Linux executable) under Cygwin and I'm *sure* that will happen a *lot* >more often if we use one of the more-or-less standard installers from >Linux distributions to install our stuff.. > >rlc > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/