Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:27, Alin Năstac wrote: > But dev-util/nsis installs a native application - makensis - which > creates win32 setups. I think this excludes nsis from your list. right, i would be OK with this living on ... last i checked, it didnt have a native linux port, but it se

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: > none of this belongs in the tree as we do not have a windows port > But dev-util/nsis installs a native application - makensis - which creates win32 setups. I think this excludes nsis from your list. I find it useful because I can automatize updates of my win32 setups on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 13:09, Alin Năstac wrote: > What is your motivation ? people want to populate the tree with packages that have no value in a pure linux system ... they want to stick ebuilds in that produce only win32 binaries (like wx-mingw) i've also seen requests for ebuilds tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:59, Alin Năstac wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >>> why do you feel the need to label crap as "official" ? >>> >> Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. >> > > as i said, that's up to you and other

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 00:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:12, Mike Doty wrote: > > I wasn't aware we had any. can you provide a list? > > there are bugs opened from time to time with people requesting more, but we > have these now: > dev-libs/wx-xmingw > dev-lib

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:59, Alin Năstac wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > why do you feel the need to label crap as "official" ? > > Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. as i said, that's up to you and other devs to decide ... it's location doesnt matter; if you ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger wrote: > having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler > annoy > me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, > things that are useless to a linux host > > however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and popul

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: > why do you feel the need to label crap as "official" ? Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:22, Alin Năstac wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate > > the sucker until it's stuffed full of crap for people to use > > I kinda need dev-util/nsis another good example of something i dont thin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: > however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate the > sucker until it's stuffed full of crap for people to use > I kinda need dev-util/nsis, but moving mingw stuff to an overlay would be fine by me as long as the overlay is *official*. signat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/20/06, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if we want to punt the toolchain packages as well (but i dont have a problem with these being in tree): dev-util/mingw-runtime dev-util/w32api -mike Hello, Please leave the toolchain so cross-compilation to win32 will be available as mains

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:12, Mike Doty wrote: > I wasn't aware we had any. can you provide a list? there are bugs opened from time to time with people requesting more, but we have these now: dev-libs/wx-xmingw dev-libs/wxactivex if we want to punt the toolchain packages as well (but i d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler > annoy > me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, > things that are useless to a linux host > > however, i think it's

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler annoy me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, things that are useless to a linux host however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate the sucker until it's stuffed