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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:36:06 -0600
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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On 18/01/2010 12:59, John Morrison wrote:
> I originally did the units package,

Oops, misread the maintainer list.  Sorry about that.

 > but, free time being what it isn't I've not really been tracking.
 >
> I have however noticed that you have units in your cygports; would it be a
> terrible imposition of me to ask you to move it into the main cygwin
> release?

I wouldn't mind doing so on a one-time basis, but I'm not really looking 
to take over the package; as you note, I've got plenty else to deal 
with.  Do you plan to continue maintaining units in the future?

> PS, I think that most of ports could be moved now; the only reason not to
> that I could think of is disk space!  You really do package a lot of
> packages!

Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the 
distro might take years. :-)  But my short-term goal is remove the 
overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the 
installation procedure for Ports' users, see here for details:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736


Yaakov

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