Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 24 07:03, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> > >>> > Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better >>>

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-25 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 24 07:03, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >> > Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better >> > one. >> >> That depends on one's view of better and Chris

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 24 07:03, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better > > one. > > That depends on one's view of better and Chris already believes he > uses the better one. That is why is refus

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better > one. That depends on one's view of better and Chris already believes he uses the better one. That is why is refuses to use something else. -- Earnie -- https://s

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 21 10:34, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distro

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:03:46PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: >If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change the >build method to one along the lines of mos

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > >> > In Linux distros, the maintaine

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. >> > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and > > the source archive. The actual build fo

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms > could be done on

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 11:43, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/19/2013 12:38, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >On 2013-06-19 12:57, Warren Young wrote: > >>You're not talking about anything different than the sort of thing > >>Cygwin package maintainers go through, sometimes needing to arm-twist > >>odd build systems to b

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-20 Thread Warren Young
On 6/19/2013 12:38, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-06-19 12:57, Warren Young wrote: You're not talking about anything different than the sort of thing Cygwin package maintainers go through, sometimes needing to arm-twist odd build systems to behave according to cygport's expectations? I thin