On 10/8/2012 12:34 AM, David Stacey wrote:
Hi. Earlier this evening I submitted an ITP for yasm. I didn't realise at that point that yasm was available in Cygwin Ports - which means that I have probably just trodden on Yaakov's toes, and for that I apologise. Please could someone kindly explain the difference between Cygwin and Cygwin Ports. Why are they kept separate, and under what circumstances could a package migrate between the two? Apologies if I should know this, but there doesn't appear to be mention of it in the Cygwin FAQ. Many thanks in advance for clarifying this, Dave.
Hi Dave, Cygwin Ports is the personal effort of one of main Cygwin package maintainers to provide additional packages. He usually provide/test new version not ready or with additional requirement than packages available in Cygwin, but also a lot of other packages in addition at his mainstream effort: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint No problem to migrate a package assuming someone takes ownership of the package in Cygwin as maintainer. I took several of Yaakov's packages and adopted mainstream in the past, usually checking/reusing what Yaakov already did. No need to cancel your ITP. Regards Marco -- 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
