Comments on: Does cygwin have a port equivalent?

By: Mat Schaffer

Mat Schaffer — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:26:59 +0000

Slightly off topic, but OS X does come with curl out of the gate.
Something to keep in mind if you’re in a pinch and don’t have ports installed on a particular machine.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:12:47 +0000

There appears to be an apt-get for Cygwin called cyg-apt floating about.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:57:33 +0000

@peter - it’d be nice though, once you’d installed core cygwin and added C:/cygwin/bin to the path, that you could fetch new apps (and their dependencies) via the command line. This would be something native to cygwin to interface with its 100s of mirror sites

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:37:59 +0000

Cygwin is a Linux emulation layer, not BSD, so you’d be more likely to be able to use things like apt-get, yum, or rpm rather than ports (which, to my knowledge, are almost always on BSDs - with the notable exception of Gentoo’s portage).