X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B54EC50.4000700@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:40 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: units: update, FHS compliance References: <4B4C390B.6060203@users.sourceforge.net> <4B54B826.5000302@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <4B54B826.5000302@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the > distro might take years. :-) But my short-term goal is remove the > overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the > installation procedure for Ports' users, see here for details: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736 Summarizing: > * Boost > * CMake > * DocBook > * FLTK > * Tcl/Tk > Again, Ports' version is *NIX/X11, the distro's is Win32/GDI. There's > been plenty of talk about switching to the X11 version on the lists, > and AFAIK a switch would be accepted, but this switch affects a number > of packages, so the transition would need some work. This would > remove the primary reason for Ports' python and ruby packages as well. > > * e2fsprogs > * OCaml > * Qt4 > * Xpdf > * Also... > cppunit: needs update/rebuild for gcc4; request sent to main list. > links: orphaned in distro. > plotutils: orphaned in distro. > units: needs update/packaging fix for FHS; request sent to list. IIRC tcl/tk was just waiting on two things, really: 1.7.1 to be released, and cgf to scrape together enough 'tuits. As far as "affecting" other packages, it would directly affect * suite3270/tcl3270 * brltty/tcl-brlapi * parrot/parrot-languages * db/db*/tcl-db* * git/gitk * git/git-gui * expect * WordNet * ruby * catgets * gdb (e.g. insight) * python so there'd need to be some coordination. The most tricky one, IMO, would be insight -- which is also on cgf's already-overburdened plate. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple