Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:49:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: packaging FriCAS and noweb
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Martin Rubey wrote:
>I'd like to maintain a cygwin package for the Computer Algebra System
>FriCAS
>
>http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FrontPage
>
>(bsd style license), and, since it requires it, a cygwin package for
>noweb.
>
>I read the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide, but I must admit that I
>did not understand all of it.
>
>For now, the most important thing for me is that I need to distribute
>FriCAS to roughly 200 Students on Wednesday.  I guess, 5 days is too
>short to make FriCAS available through setup.exe, but I do not know?
>(I should admit, that FriCAS has not made it into any linux
>distribution yet.)
>
>I found some "unofficial" cygwin packages around, like
>
>http://lilypond.org/cygwin/release/noweb/
>
>but I do not know how I could install them.  Is it correct that
>setup.exe is the wrong tool to install those?
>
>So, in short, I believe I can provide the source and binary package and
>setup.hint (see below), but I do not understand whether providing this
>would be enough for my students to install it...
>
>Help would be greatly appreciated.  Many, many thanks,

I'm sorry but I can't offer much help.  You really do have to go through
the whole process of getting the package in the distribution.  If you
have questions, you need to ask *specific* questions rather than just
profess general ignorance.  And, since this is a package, the first
thing you need to do is move the questions to the appropriate mailing
ilst - cygwin-apps .

As far as the package at lilypond.org, you should contact that site for
help and questions.

cgf

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