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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:13:51 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with nfs
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 07:06:18AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>On 04/24/2012 12:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> The problem is that the NFS-server package in Cygwin is orphaned since
>> the maintainer has moved on.  If somebody is interested to pick up
>> maintainance of that package, you're welcome.  See
>> http://cygwin.com/setup.html for more information.  The cygport
>> packaging method is the preferred packaging method these days.
>Why don't we have an nfs-client package? Same reason - no maintainer? I 
>would think an nfs-client would be much more useful than an nfs-server 
>package.

No maintainer + implementing it would require modifying Cygwin.  NFS
clients are part of the OS.

cgf

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