Thanks for the clarification, Adam. I've been meaning/wanting to step up and take care of some Cygwin packages, given that it's generally my Unix after from my desktop environment sort of arrangement ... and, well, I have a Jenkins server that has some free cycles on it (particularly for things like nightly, off-hours builds/pipelines).
TLDR; I will start digging in to it, myself... may not have too much spare time, at least this week, until the weekend. Thanks! On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:40 AM Adam Dinwoodie <a...@dinwoodie.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:17:59PM -0800, Russell VT wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 2:26 PM Scott Wood <> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to compile a current version of apache2 httpd under the > cygwin64 > > > environment. There is an older version of apache2 compiled in cygwin > but > > > it's orphaned and didn't include some of the ssl libs I needed. > > > > > > > Well, I wouldn't call it "orphaned" ... it's just a few dot revisions > > behind. Both 2.4.29 and 2.4.25 seem to be in the package list, and > current > > is 2.4.52 (2021/12/20) > > From a formal Cygwin package management perspective, the package is > orphaned. That is, the page at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint > lists the package as "ORPHANED", which means nobody is currently taking > specific responsibility for answering questions about the package or > providing updates in future. > > That obviously means that volunteers to maintain the package would > almost certainly be gladly received. I've not looked at how much work > is required to maintain this package, but as a maintainer for some other > packages, I can say it's not a lot of work, particularly if you'd be > getting the package compiling for your own purposes anyway. > > If you (where, by "you", I mean anyone reading this!) want to try taking > over the maintainership, there's a bunch of information about what's > required at https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html, and > the packagers' mailing list is active and helpful. Plus -- while we > seem to have mostly dropped the habit of awarding gold stars to folk > making contributions -- I think adopting an orphaned package is still > worthy of automatic listing at https://cygwin.com/goldstars/ > > Adam > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
