Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the > distro might take years. :-) But my short-term goal is remove the > overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the > installation procedure for Ports' users, see here for details: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736
Summarizing: > * Boost > * CMake > * DocBook > * FLTK > * Tcl/Tk > Again, Ports' version is *NIX/X11, the distro's is Win32/GDI. There's > been plenty of talk about switching to the X11 version on the lists, > and AFAIK a switch would be accepted, but this switch affects a number > of packages, so the transition would need some work. This would > remove the primary reason for Ports' python and ruby packages as well. > > * e2fsprogs > * OCaml > * Qt4 > * Xpdf > * Also... > cppunit: needs update/rebuild for gcc4; request sent to main list. > links: orphaned in distro. > plotutils: orphaned in distro. > units: needs update/packaging fix for FHS; request sent to list. IIRC tcl/tk was just waiting on two things, really: 1.7.1 to be released, and cgf to scrape together enough 'tuits. As far as "affecting" other packages, it would directly affect * suite3270/tcl3270 * brltty/tcl-brlapi * parrot/parrot-languages * db/db*/tcl-db* * git/gitk * git/git-gui * expect * WordNet * ruby * catgets * gdb (e.g. insight) * python so there'd need to be some coordination. The most tricky one, IMO, would be insight -- which is also on cgf's already-overburdened plate. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
