guile-1.6 [WAS: experimental texmf packages]

2002-01-30 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Btw, how is your guile contribution coming along? > > The static build is ok, same quality as yours, only two minor patches. > Dynamic seems to make problems at least with lilypond, also another guy > was not able to rebuild it with my patch, I thi

Re: lists, reply-to (was: experimental texmf packages)

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The have both been bosted to one of the cygwin lists in the last .p Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repor

Re: lists, reply-to (was: experimental texmf packages)

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jochen Küpper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gerrit> I would prefer if the listserver would manage this and rewrite > Gerrit> the Reply-To Header regardless who is writing, so it points > Gerrit> always to the list. > > That is not what reply-to is intended for. We are

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-08 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have successfully installed your texmf packages using setup. I just put > your files in my existing downloaded files and edited my existing setup.ini > to add the texmf-* hints. > > Simple tests for tex, latex and dvips work. I will

lists, reply-to (was: experimental texmf packages)

2001-12-08 Thread Jochen Küpper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:17:26 +0100 Gerrit P Haase wrote: Gerrit> I would prefer if the listserver would manage this and rewrite Gerrit> the Reply-To Header regardless who is writing, so it points Gerrit> always to the list. That is not what reply-to

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Robert, Am 2001-12-08 um 03:51 schriebst du: > BTW: Gerrit, if you post with a munged Reply-To: Address, could you > please also Munge your 'readable version' to be something like "Gerrit > Haase @ Cygwin" rather than just "Gerrit P. Haase"? Yes, good point to avoid trouble. I would pref

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Collins wrote: > > > Non-public code bug reports do belong here > > you mean, bug reports for non-public code belong on ***cygwin-apps@***, > right? This thread is on cygwin@ (originally because of the texmf > thin

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > Non-public code bug reports do belong here you mean, bug reports for non-public code belong on ***cygwin-apps@***, right? This thread is on cygwin@ (originally because of the texmf thing, and Gerrit's Reply-To address). Perhaps this setup-related subthread should be mov

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You'd want a central tool(set) to do the > > building and packaging, and package specific scripts/makefile > > snippets. > > Well, that's what Robert is pushing. But IMO we shouldn't try to > reinvent THAT wheel (the pack

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're in bsd-ports "make world" mode, I see. I don't think that is a > goal, yet. *OUR* concern is "make cygwin work". Yes, I guess our priorities don't match. I've been in "make world" mode since the b20 days; I needed to build some core develop

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>different naming convention, ie foo-1.1-cyg.tar.gz? >>> >>probably too late -- non-maintainers who want to build it personally >>should just download and follow the instructions. >> > > Hmm, that sounds awfully unscri

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Ok thanks for the pointer. Is there a script to do the packaging? yep -- each script contains a script (in some package schemes -- #3, I think -- you have to apply the patch FIRST, and then the script is created in /CYGWIN-PATCHES/ or something). >>pop quiz: w

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:04:22AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That's the thing -- Chris has been offering webspace if folks needed >> it. BUT, you don't even NEED webspace to port a package. Just port it, >> promise to maintain it, and upload i

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, but I don't have that itch. Sorry, but I don't really *care* > about rpm itself. No, me neither. It seemed just more convenient to package my stuff, although the perl/berk db dependencies didn't really help. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAI

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > @%!@#$ AT&T@home smtp server it lost my reply to this message, so > this is try #2... Thanks for doing your try #2 > I'm not sure I understand. It wasn't that you needed to provide a > reverse patch, [..] > It's not supposed to be a backward pat

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > different naming convention, ie foo-1.1-cyg.tar.gz? > > probably too late -- non-maintainers who want to build it personally > should just download and follow the instructions. Hmm, that sounds awfully unscriptable :-) Am I the only non-maintainer

RE: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
. -Original Message- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2001 12:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: experimental texmf packages Hi List, This week I've taken a quick stab at packaging a texmf tree that goes with the tetex-beta in contrib, so y

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > do porting. So the point is that if RPM had been contributed, and you > maintain *just that one package* as an official package (Hey, Chuck this > goes for you too :}) Yeah, but I don't have that itch. Sorry, but I don't really *care* about rpm itself. I just liked the

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
@%!@#$ AT&T@home smtp server it lost my reply to this message, so this is try #2... Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Well, I still thought it was silly to have identical forward and > backward patches, when we have a patch -R flag. Normal mode of > operation is to (apply and) supply forward patch

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Do we already have -src packages that adhere to this new convention? Yep. mktemp. automake, automake-devel, automake-stable, autoconf, autoconf-devel, autoconf-stable, cygutils, ... > If it's not too late, it would be very nice if they could be > distinguished fro

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Build environments to recreate a -src package need > a) pristine source TARBALL. > b) patch for current -x version > c) extracted and patched working dir. > the pre-patch -src requirement has been. See > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html. No mention

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, I still thought it was silly to have identical forward and > backward patches, when we have a patch -R flag. Normal mode of > operation is to (apply and) supply forward patches; now my (and > everyone else's pack

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First, thanks for your reply on my ranting mail, that went to the list by accident (look at Gerrit's address). > Silly? no. Difficult and painful, prompting questions like "surely > there is a better way"? yes. Well, I still thought it was silly to h

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Thanks. I know about that page; but I'm not sure about the status of > all individual items; notably the absolute silly reversed-patch > requirement. Silly? no. Difficult and painful, prompting questions like "surely there is a better way"? yes. You need to unders

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nah, what I meant, there is a function in libpng not found because tetex > was linked against another version and the table layout changed (unfortunately), > so tetex needs a rebuild with the current libpng. Yes, I've asked Jerome for a rebuild (af

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jan, 2001-12-03 13:41:16, du schriebst: >> That was installed with setup.exe. But I didn't tested much, so I would >> like to do more testing. >> There seem to be also be dependencies to libpng which causes errors. > Ok. I've addes setup hints, made some fixes and even did some testing

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That was installed with setup.exe. But I didn't tested much, so I would > like to do more testing. > There seem to be also be dependencies to libpng which causes errors. Ok. I've addes setup hints, made some fixes and even did some testing this w