Re: Debian CygWin?

[Owen Dunn <owend@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.991216104826.7947C-100000@wr-linux02.rki.de> you write:
>I just wanted to know if the intentions to make a CygWin based
>port of Debian are alive.  About half a year ago there
>was a thread on this topic.  I think CygWin has developed
>since this time.

I suspect the blocking point here might well be that cygwin doesn't
support everything that dpkg relies on to do its job safely.  ISTR
that previous attempts to port dpkg to cygwin have encountered this 
problem, but I could be wrong.

(S)