Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: name: GNU/cygwin system X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:43:35 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Michael Smith" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4LFTbH14574 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Smith [mailto:smith AT xml-doc DOT org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM > Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity > with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs > and Debian packages) are available for all sorts of things, I'm not > sure how many are aware that: > > * through Cygwin, many of the same tools available as packages for > Linux distributions are also available as packages for Windows > (and Cygwin provides an environment for compiling and installing > many others that aren't packaged yet) > > * Cygwin provides a sophisticated package management system that > makes it easy to install and update packages One of the things is that Cygwin's package list is still pretty small. On Debian for instance, one can grab 3 or even 4 different IMAP daemons. On Cygwin, you're lucky to get one. This is a maturity thing, but still a significant difference. Don't get me wrong - we do appreciate extra awareness of Cygwin - but there is a lot to do. One of the most significant things you can do is maintain a package. Just a single one. Then it's one more thing available for use on cygwin, and one more community that becomes aware of us. The libxml/libxslt community is aware of cygwin for instance - because as maintainer I am present on the upstream lists. > I don't what can be done to raise more awareness about Cygwin -- > especially about the availability of packages; but in part, I guess > that more people should -- when, on mailing lists or websites, they're > pointing out that certain applications are available as Linux > packages -- take the time to check to see whether particular packages > are available for Cygwin, and acknowledge when they are. IMO the biggest awareness raiser is someone present in both the cygwin and the upstream community who raises the presence of binary packages in peoples awareness. > That's what I've tried to do for the DocBook/XML/SGML packages that > Jon Foster and Markus Hoenicka put together -- by adding information > about them to the DocBook Wiki: Cool. You might like to point out that in the near future those packages will be available without needing the custom URL. They will be mirrored globally. > About the page at the second URL: I hope I'm not using the Cygwin logo > inappropriately. If I am, somebody please let me know (I couldn't find > any information at the Cygwin site about use of the logo). That seems fine to me. I'm not aware of any strict policy about the logo. Chris? > Are there other promotional logos/buttons/banners I could/should use > instead? Maybe a version of the Cygwin banner (http://cygwin.com/cygwin.jpg)? I think that the banner is a beter promotional tool. Words help! Rob -- 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/