Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:17:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-list@losthorizons.mailshell.com Subject: Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't Message-ID: <20041112171711.GA28402@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-list@losthorizons.mailshell.com References: <20041019172254.GA23401@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4194D9A3.7060409@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4194D9A3.7060409@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:41:23PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>bind > >I have bind here, please someone grab it and make a package from this >initial port, the server needs more testing: > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/DNS/bind-9.2.2/ > >>coreutils >>mailx >>ping >>sendmail >>screen >> >>In some cases we have packages which offer similar-but-not-identical >>behavior but in some cases (ping, screen) we don't have anything close, >>AFAIK. >> >>I'm sure that there must be other packages that are missing. Can >>anyone add to the above list? Are we missing any standard development >>packages, for instance? I think you missed my point. Many, if not most of these are not standard linux packages. atlas? cblas? editline? libtar? "haskel compiler"? Maybe you use these packages every day but I don't think they fall into the category that I was looking for. dmalloc (maybe), mysql, and (maybe) mozilla would be potential candidates, though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/