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Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't


Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you
asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or
compilers for developers.

And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my system.

Then you don't use jed or slrn which are based on slang.


libedit is a readline replacement and probably everybody has it on his box linked statically into some executable, eg. mysql client.

I am looking for standard, frequently used linux packages that are
missing from the cygwin distribution.  You certainly can't put "adns" in
the same classification as bind.

Yep, since adns is just a client and requires bind or another resolver.


I could have easily gone to the Debian web site and pulled down a list
of hundreds of packages that are not in Cygwin.  My intent was to see
what people thought was obviously missing.

Do you actually use adns frequently? Somehow I suspect that you don't.

Well, not daily, but it works and I use it occasionally, maybe as often as I would use dig:
$ adnshost cygwin.com
cygwin.com A INET 12.107.209.250
$ adnshost -tmx cygwin.com
cygwin.com MX 10 sourceware.org ok 0 ok "OK" ( INET 12.107.209.250 )


I like this more than ahost from ares which is of course just an example how to use ares and not a full blown command line interface to the library:
$ ahost cygwin.com
cygwin.com 12.107.209.250


BTW, ares (now c-ares) is an integral part of curl and probably you use it every day.

Anyway, I think I got your point. I was really missing top, but today I learned that it is already part of the distribution.

Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog?


Gerrit -- =^..^=

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