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| 1 | +#Note from the developer |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +I am no longer working on apt-cyg. As far as I know, it works. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +However it was written quite a while ago by reverse engineering the files used by Cygwin's setup.exe program. It doesn't |
| 6 | +share any code with setup.exe, and if setup.exe is modified in such a way that assumptions made by apt-cyg no longer |
| 7 | +apply, apt-cyg will break. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +apt-cyg is an infrastructure program and probably belongs in Cygwin rather than here, but as far as I know, RedHat is |
| 10 | +no longer paying more than one or two engineers to work on Cygwin and they are unlikely to do anything with apt-cyg or |
| 11 | +other, similar programs that are out there. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Because I got dragged into a time-consuming and unpleasant law suit involving apt-cyg, I am very unlikely to put |
| 14 | +more time and effort into it anytime soon, even though I won. I write open source software because I enjoy it, not so |
| 15 | +I can get involved in meaningless conflicts. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +If you would like to contribute to apt-cyg, the best way to do that is to fork it. You don't need my permission to |
| 18 | +do that, just follow the license. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +--Steve Jungels |