X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F847C98.8080401@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:31:52 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin? References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6559C3C2@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4F83C996.6030708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F83C996.6030708@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 4/9/2012 11:48 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: > I wrote to the help desk of NCBI Blast+. They have no guidelines > for Cygwin users and also suggested the windows version. It sounds like the Cygwin port is abandoned, then. You should consider adopting it. Yes, it's a fair bit of work, and I wouldn't be surprised if you initially don't have the skill to figure out everything about reviving this port. However, the best way to learn is to try and do something. -- 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