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Re: [HEADSUP] Base category


On Dec  9 16:04, Warren Young wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > On Dec  8 15:28, Warren Young wrote:
> >> Iâve got in mind the 2-3 times in my memory where Perl has crept into
> >> the minimal install set via some indirect dependency.
> > 
> > I still don't grok why everybody is so hot on keeping the base install
> > so very small.  Our Base package set is really tiny in comparison
> > with any Linux distro.  Perl is default on most of them.  Why not
> > for us?  Disk space is dirt cheap these days.
> 
> I agree with both sides of the argument.  A tightly-scoped minimal
> install is a good thing, and it would be a good thing if we could have
> a universally-available programming language that fills the vast gap
> between sh and C. [1]

There is? :)

> It boggles my mind how much is in the Cygwin package repository, and
> then how much more is in Ports.  To some extent, this has to be a
> reflection of Sturgeonâs Law. [2]

Isn't that the same for all distros?  Cygwin has just a few thousand
packages, Linux distros have 10s of thousands.

> It is possible to install so much within Cygwin that you turn Windows
> into a rather slow Linux distro with a demented kernel.  If youâre
> going to do that, why not just switch to Linux or OS X on the desktop,
> and run *Windows* in a VM?
> 
> This is as good a time as any to tell anyone who cares that Iâve
> finally done just that: I recently retired my last machine that boots
> natively into Windows.  I only have VMs now.  Iâll probably be fading
> from the Cygwin scene as a consequence.  I expect it to be a slow
> fade, since I still feel the need to pay back some of the value Cygwin
> provided to me in the years before we got mature VM systems.

Oh well.  I'm running Windows in VMs only for years and I still didn't
disappear from the project :}

> Therefore: So long, and can I help you find some fish before I go? :)

I'm sorry to read that.  In fact I had hoped you would be willing to
look a bit more into the documentation again, after you so kindly pulled
it into the 21st century last year.  There's certainly still much room
for improvement.

Thanks for your long-time involvment with Cygwin and bearing with us all
the time.  Please stick to us as long as you like.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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