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Re: Cygwin + Debian
- To: "Mark Paulus" <commpg at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin + Debian
- From: "Christophe Prud'homme" <prudhomm at MIT dot EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:15:56 -0400
- Cc: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Organization: MIT
- References: <200106202348.TAA09608@pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu>
* Mark Paulus [Mercredi 20 Juin 2001 11:51 am ] :
> Which piece of debian are you thinking would be cool to port?
the packaging tools at least
I would love having a nice install/upgrade tools ala debian under cygwin
>
> Since debian is just a particular flavour of Linux, and a particular
> way/methodology of packaging/distributing that same
> OS and it's utilities, "porting debian" doesn't really make sense.
yes
However debian is not just about GNU/Linux but also GNU/Hurd
>
> However, do you want to use the debian package manager,
> dpkg/apt-get/dselect? There might be some resistance to that
> as Cygwin is owned/sponsered/supported by Redhat, which
> is probably attached to the RPM philosophy (They did create
> it after all).
>
> Otherwise, are there particular utilities that you want to
> port?
see above
cygwin is in a great state, I managed to port a big CORBA framework
under cygwin with just a little pain !
my goal certainly selfish since I would like to see the packages I use under cygwin
and they are already available under debian
CORBA mico 2.3.5 (with all the services and especially the naming and trading services)
Corelinux (http://corelinux.sourforge.net) a C++ Framework
I already started looking at dpkg and related tools
However I am new to this and will certainly need some help from the debian side
the is already a list debian-win32
regards
C.
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