On 9/29/2011 11:05 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > Somebody already created Cygwin packages. See the URL at fd0.x0.to. But > I don't see who's behind it.
The included readme in the package says this person: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/fd0/ But I don't speak/read japanese... FWIW, the -src package uses cygport and provides a minimal src patch (disables using the .rc file and adding properties to the dll), along with a cygwin patch providing a readme and setup.hint. (hint lists cygwin as a require: but this is no longer recommended practice). We can't just grab some cygwin package off a website and stick it in the distribution. We need an actual maintainer, who is a member of this community (at least, subscribed to the cygwin mailing list), who commits to supporting the package, and to ITP it on cygwin-apps. Then there's the whole GTG evaluation and voting process (or documentation that the package is provide by (at least one) major linux distro). It's fine with me if that volunteer wants to /start/ with a 3rd party cygport script and patchset, but the volunteer needs to "take ownership" of it going forward. -- 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
