Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-15 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, 15 May 2018 at 00:49, Steven Penny wrote: > fact. example is the Git package, which as of this writing is totally up to > date: > - http://cygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com/x86_64/release/git > - http://github.com/git/git/releases I've been avoiding this thread as I haven't had anything productiv

Re: What is Cygwin and MinGW [WAS: Request new Ruby release]

2018-05-15 Thread cyg Simple
I'm moving this to the Cygwin-Talk list. On 5/14/2018 7:48 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2018 10:31:18, cyg Simple wrote: >> And you a free to do so.  MinGW isn't GCC > > yes it is. when you compile GCC, as i have done: > > http://github.com/svnpenn/glade/blob/master/mingw-w64-x86-64

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-14 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, 14 May 2018 10:31:18, cyg Simple wrote: because they have merit? i said that already. Since you stated in the form of a question, I can say for me, they do not and based on the conversation of others, not for anyone but you. let me rephrase: they have merit, full stop. Example 1, quo

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-14 Thread cyg Simple
On 5/6/2018 10:08 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2018 00:54:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> The question is, if you actually understand your comments are not >> appreciated, why do you insist on making them anyway? > > because they have merit? i said that already. > Since you stated in t

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-06 Thread Steven Penny
On Sun, 6 May 2018 00:54:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The question is, if you actually understand your comments are not appreciated, why do you insist on making them anyway? because they have merit? i said that already. GCC as an example is a fast updating package. No, not really. its fast

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-05-05 01:56, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:27:22, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> Jon Yong is doing an hell of job taming a monster program, >> and your comments are NOT appropriated. > > certainly not by you - and probably others on this list. The question is, if you actually unders

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 May 2018 at 02:56, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:27:22, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> I am still waiting that you show your code. > > > i did, here, i can do it again: > > http://github.com/svnpenn > >> Jon Yong is doing an hell of job taming a monster program, > > > no one is argui

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:27:22, Marco Atzeri wrote: I am still waiting that you show your code. i did, here, i can do it again: http://github.com/svnpenn Jon Yong is doing an hell of job taming a monster program, no one is arguing that, i agree its a tough package to maintain and your comme

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 5/5/2018 2:56 AM, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2018 15:16:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: I do not see you doing any package activity release, so you should refrain to comment on how we (package maintainers) use our own spare time for this project. such comments are perfectly acceptable if ma

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-05-04 18:56, Steven Penny wrote: > sorry, did you really just invoke fortran as a serious argument? fortran is > arguably the oldest programming language still in use, if you can even call it > that. you can't even do HTTP with it: > http://rosettacode.org/wiki/HTTPS#Fortran That's what we

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 4 May 2018 15:16:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: I do not see you doing any package activity release, so you should refrain to comment on how we (package maintainers) use our own spare time for this project. such comments are perfectly acceptable if maintainers are acting in bad faith with rega

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 5/4/2018 2:09 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2018 00:05:23, Brian Inglis wrote: For an understaffed, all-volunteer effort, Cygwin does a tremendous job providing us with a compatible, reliable, stable subsystem working environment, running in a less stable environment. Cygwin seems t

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 4 May 2018 00:05:23, Brian Inglis wrote: For an understaffed, all-volunteer effort, Cygwin does a tremendous job providing us with a compatible, reliable, stable subsystem working environment, running in a less stable environment. Cygwin seems to keep up to date with stable releases of im

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-03 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-05-03 17:16, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:51:36, Steven Penny wrote: >> Please release new Cygwin Ruby. Current version is 2.3.6 (Dec 2017), and >> since >> then 2 versions have dropped [1]: >> - 2.4.3 (Dec 2017) >> - 2.5.0 (Dec 2017) >> 2.4.0 introduced Enumerable#sum [2],

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-03 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-05-03 18:16, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:51:36, Steven Penny wrote: >> Please release new Cygwin Ruby. Current version is 2.3.6 (Dec 2017), >> and since >> then 2 versions have dropped [1]: >> >> - 2.4.3 (Dec 2017) >> - 2.5.0 (Dec 2017) >> >> 2.4.0 introduced Enumerable#sum

Re: Request new Ruby release

2018-05-03 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:51:36, Steven Penny wrote: Please release new Cygwin Ruby. Current version is 2.3.6 (Dec 2017), and since then 2 versions have dropped [1]: - 2.4.3 (Dec 2017) - 2.5.0 (Dec 2017) 2.4.0 introduced Enumerable#sum [2], would be nice to have. [1] http://github.com/ruby/ruby/t

Request new Ruby release

2018-02-24 Thread Steven Penny
Please release new Cygwin Ruby. Current version is 2.3.6 (Dec 2017), and since then 2 versions have dropped [1]: - 2.4.3 (Dec 2017) - 2.5.0 (Dec 2017) 2.4.0 introduced Enumerable#sum [2], would be nice to have. [1] http://github.com/ruby/ruby/tags [2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/41235616 -- Pr