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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:25:37 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 06/25/2008, David Spector wrote:
> Larry,
> 
> Thanks for the info. I think the maintainer of fontforge should have added 
> it to the cygwin setup as a standard package, with the appropriate 
> dependencies. That would have avoided the problem that I had (and more 
> people in the future will probably have with installing fontforge on 
> Windows). 

Agreed.  We encourage this as well.  It helps eliminate confusion.  And
while we highly encourage folks packaging things for Cygwin to become a
Cygwin maintainer so their offerrings become part of the distribution,
some have chosen not to do this but to still package things in a setup-
compatible way.  While this is not ideal, it does make it easier for
users to point 'setup.exe' to these other servers and install packages
directly from these servers, just like any other mirror.  If fontforge
was packaged and served this way, it very likely would have been easier
for you too.

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A: Yes.
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