In June I presented the idea of a "Package file lists archive" and was met with this
> I understand how the package generation would have to work and don't see a > major benefit to introducing a package list file given the amount of work and > the fact that I would have to do the work. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00276.html However Christopher has since left the project > In the last several months I've told various key players in the Cygwin project > that I was thinking about withdrawing from the project. Today is the day that > this becomes official. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00392.html I would like to revisit this issue. I would like to see if I can help in any way to make this happen. My work on "apt-cyg" has been hindered by the issue with "cygcheck --package-query" http://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/issues/21 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple