Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available

[Shankar Unni <shankar at cotagesoft dot com>]

Yann Crausaz wrote:

> The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's
> a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple
> really use RPM under Cygwin ? 

Good point.

The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as 
a possible replacement for the current installation system (if anyone 
considers RPM, and its associated GUIs, an improvement, that is).

For that, however, these programs need to be *native Windows binaries* 
(i.e. no cygwin layer underneath), or you'd have a chicken-and-egg 
problem doing a first-time installation (or any time you updated cygwin 
itself).

So for the moment, these ports are mainly a curiosity.

Perhaps one future idea may be for the cygwin installations can be split 
up into the Base group installed by the current setup, and RPM/apt-get 
or whatever to manage the rest?
--
Shankar.



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