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On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 02:28 -0500, Jason Alonso wrote: |
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> I've hypothesized, to myself, that prefixed portage may work for |
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> Cygwin, but I haven't looked very carefully. |
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> The Cygwin community has been very closed to the idea of admitting |
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> Portage (I've tried), even in light of other package management |
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> systems (like RPM) that they support. As an alternative, they have a |
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> Portage-like build system (for building setup.ini packages) called |
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> cygport, whose community of packages I've seen mentioned elsewhere in |
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> this thread. |
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> The Cygwin chapter of my life has spanned from 1998 to the present, |
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> but it's drawing to a close. Before long, I expect to leave the |
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> Windows world entirely. Best of luck to you, though I'll keep an eye |
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> on this mailing list and offer what advice I can. |
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> Regards, |
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> Jason |
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Thanks for your hard work and commitment. |
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Looks like RedHat (Cygwin) basically fulfilled the needs & goals of many |
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(and still is to date). I still believe a Gentoo Cygwin would probably |
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quicken the Cygwin binaries up a large amount. (As all the binaries are |
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compiled for i386, and I see a huge difference on my pentium3 stuff |
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around here.) |
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Unfortunately, I rarely use Windows at all these days! If I were forced |
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to, I would definitely be pushing into this project. Even though, I |
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whenever I install Windows anywhere, I'll always definitely install |
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Cygwin as well. |
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Roger |
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http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html |
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Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 |
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Wed Dec 26 10:21:08 AKST 2007 |
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