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Re: [ITP] email-2.3.0
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:45:10PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT,
>> non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as
>> "mailx" (or nail, or whatever).
>
>Given that argument, how would a new program ever become "standard"?
By existing in a linux distribution. Seems pretty obvious.
>> Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of
>packaging
>> up nail for this purprose?
>
>It can't be that simple to port, or someone would have already done it.
>Christ, I can't even untar nail to my Cygwin box as it contains a file named
>aux.c.
Given that attitude, I think I will just give up working on Cygwin entirely.
It's just too hard.
cgf