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Subject: Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity
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> On Jan 11, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Jan 11 16:40, Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
>> On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:30 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jan 11 16:15, Lemke, Michael  ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
>>>> On Friday, January 11, 2019 3:50 PM David Dombrowsky wrote:
>>>>> On 1/11/19 8:40 AM, E. Madison Bray wrote:
>>>>>> I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by
>>>>>> Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there
>>>>>> even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact
>>>>>> that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosystem.
>>>>>> Maybe it should be.
>>>>> 
>>>>> YES PLEASE!  Cygwin is awesome and this would put it firmly into the
>>>>> first class of required windows programs/systems.
>>>> 
>>>> It's dead:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/blob/master/status.md
>>> 
>>> If somebody is willing to maintain apt-get as package in the Cygwin
>>> distro, which includes keeping it running if setup.exe changes, fixing
>>> bugs as required(*), by all means,  go ahead.
>>> 
>>> Are you volunteering, by any chance?
>> 
>> My reply was only meant as a hint, I have no interest in the package,
>> but someone (who is on this list I believe) already did:
>> 
>> https://github.com/cup/sage/issues/20
> 
> Nice.

No, actually, it's not nice at all. See https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/issues/73 and read down to alphapapa's comment. A little googling will show the comment is accurate.
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