On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:48:35PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Since there are already in Ports, why aren't these in the distro? I >already maintain a proportionally large number of the distro packages, >and there is legitimate concern that having too many packages maintained >by one volunteer would lead to a difficult situation for the rest of the >distro if said volunteer were to leave the project for whatever reason >(a seemingly inevitable situation in community-run FOSS projects). >OTOH, I do feel that Cygwin would be a much better product with the >GNOME and KDE libraries and applications commonly found in Linux >distros, and I've lost count of how many people struggle to build things >which are already available for, but not shipped with, Cygwin.
I have absolutely no problem with your adding more packages to the distro, Yaakov. I'm sure Corinna would not disagree. I think it would cut down on some confusion if we had more of GNOME in Cygwin. (Even though I normally use KDE) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/