Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:03:09AM -0700, dawillis dawillis wrote: > >>Per the HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE located in /usr/doc/cygutils-1.0.0, I have >>put together a tarball, patch and a changelog entry for cygutils to >>build col for use in CYGWIN. The reason I have done so is that I am >>supporting some older shell scripts that make use of the command, and >>it was easier to port col to CYGWIN than to rewrite the scripts. The >>cygutil package seemed to be the appropriate location since other BSD >>derived utilities, such as cal, are packaged there. I hope these >>patches can be integrated quickly. > > > Why are you contributing to cygutils rather than cygwin itself?
Actually, Chris, I think col *does* belong in cygutils. On linux, it is found in the util-linux package -- a random grab bag of lots of small and useful, or small and not-so-useful, or small but totally-cygwin-inappropriate programs. We have a package where lots of random, small, and (hopefully) useful programs can live -- cygutils. (In fact, I was planning -- before real life intervened -- to add col to cygutils eventually (given, of course, cygwin-list approval (*)) So, **if** the mailing list agrees, then I will accept dawillis's port of col. (*) As I earlier agreed, I won't add new programs to the cygutils package unless the list agrees that to do so would be a good idea. We don't want to recreate full.exe. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
