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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:01:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Andrea Mennucc1 <debian AT Tonelli DOT sns DOT it>
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Subject: Re: what about 'Debian GNU/GygWin' ?
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Andrea Mennucc1 wrote:
> 
> hello  to all the CygWin developers.
> 
> I am a regular GNU/Linux user.
> 
> I have just met (and briefly used)
> the CygWin environment, and I am positively impressed.

Thanks.

> At this stage, I see an interesting perspective for CygWin:
> CygWin may indeed adhere to one of the main existing "packaging systems",
> like RedHat RPMs or Debian DEBs

One of our contributors is already working on a RPM release
system for Cygwin which will become our main distribution
method hopefully this year.

> I would suggest the latter, for these reasons

Uhmm, did you notice that Cygwin is a RedHat product?
IMHO, it's very unlikely that Cygwin will use other packaging
systems than RPM for that reason.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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