-----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen Sent: 03 October 2004 03:15 Would you be interested in mentoring a willing volunteer?Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one minute........ ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK**** [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper] <brushes dust off hands> That'll learn 'im!
Wouldn't it be easy for the beginning to gather a list of GTG (good-to-go) stable packages, without any known conflicts.
Or much better to gather a list of known conflicts, which have to be resolved/left out/added from/to this distro. The rest can be in then.
Don't know how to deal with mixed stable/test builds.
E.g. I assume all of gerrits new packages are with latest gcc / libtool-devel, which is still in test.
Maybe just start with issues for the binary packages:
Issues known to me so far: ITP moratorium / SC (Steering Committee) idea? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html coreutils missing (required) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html apache missing (required) apache-*php* missing (required) mysql missing (required) at least "libmysql" and "mysql-client", "mysql-server" probably not needed. gcc-core > 3.3.3 needs libtool-devel-1.5.10 (still in test) for libtoolized packages: .rdata bug postgreql-7.4.5 pgperl fails libmcrypt needs replacement (mingw build) cygwin-1.5.11-1 pipe bug cygserver on Win95 (already fixed?) gnome2 stable? some packages missing. libcurl pending minor issues with wrong deps for libtool src builders.
convenience:
* cygcheck -f /usr/dict/words => none
* dllwrap docs: no man or info page,
not even in the Cygwin/binutils*.README
* more init.d scripts for the services, maybe with
additional service installers/uninstallersExpected problems: * freshly added gif support in libgd * libungif pending and problematic X dependencies for libtool. * sysbash package pending (to test service problems) * ExplorerHere package pending (often requested feature) * perl layout (better upgrade convenience) * layout stuff: where to put optional or contrib binaries, not to pollute the path /usr/lib/<package>/bin/ probably * xemacs 21.5 ?? (japanese need mule support)
Timeframe:
* wait for gnome2, apache, php and mysql or do without?
php will need a lot of convenience extensions and dependent libs
* consider list of pending ITP's and not-GTG packages:
graphviz, ploticus, libming, t1lib, Swarm,
re2c, MTools, cdrtools, EMacro, leafnode, ac-archive,
rxp, git, unrtf, lcab, ...
all other of the ~100 Jaari ITP's probably not.
(esp. when he is very busy now, and it was one year ago)-- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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