Re: dpkg with mingw32 / win32

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Phil Lello schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is anyone currently working on getting dpkg to handle windows installs?
>>
>> I'm writing some cross-platform software, and would love to be able 
>> to use dpkg (and eventually apt or similar) to install dependencies.
>>
>> I'm happy to work on this myself, but want to check what other people 
>> are doing before starting on this. This would be fairly low priority 
>> for me.
>>
>> The main requirements I have are:
>>    - Assignment of architecture for control file (no obvious choices 
>> from ubuntu/gutsy `dpkg-architecture.pl -L`)
>>    - Assignment of standard '-admindir' (probably $PROGRAM_FILES$/dpkg)
>>    - Running 'dpkg -i'
>
> There has been some work on this in the past:
> http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ and afaik it's also in Cygwin now.
Thanks, I'll have a look at this. I'm more interested in getting dpkg to 
work without the cygwin layer, but this should be a good starting point.