X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D8270BB.9010608@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:11 -0400 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1 References: <4D7FE2A7.8080409@xs4all.nl> <4D7FE57A.4020903@redhat.com> <4D806DCF.5090803@xs4all.nl> <4D80C0B8.8090603@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4D80CEB4.7090005@xs4all.nl> <20110316154913.GA18995@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4D80DEAF.6020307@xs4all.nl> <4D810FAF.6040609@t-online.de> <20110316193249.GA15365@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4D8117FD.40507@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110316201821.GA773@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4D812DBE.1090607@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4D81CED1.9050601@xs4all.nl> <4D820D62.4030403@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4D821D89.5020105@xs4all.nl> <4D823D92.1000600@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4D826761.5030302@xs4all.nl> <4D826A52.8090009@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D826A52.8090009@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 On 3/17/2011 4:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/17/2011 01:56 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >> I'm willing to maintain patches for Cygwin, to make the transition >> easier. But if there is no chance that the package gets accepted, I >> rather save myself the trouble. > > There's two sets of patches being talked about here: > > 1) What temporary (3-month?) patches are needed to make the dos2unix > package a drop-in replacement to the existing cygwin dos2unix, so that > people can start testing if it really was a drop-in. > > 2) What patches (permanent) are worth adding to upstream, to fix > deficiencies in the usability of upstream when compared to what cygwin has. OK, everybody, time out for a minute. Rather than talk vapor, I'll develop the patches necessary. The first one, or first set (e.g. #2, above), I'll propose that "official" upstream dos2unix accept *for all platforms*. It will not change upstream's behavior in any way, except for offering some new options. The second one (#1, above), I'll propose that Erwin use as part of his initial cygwin package offering. This one would be only a transitional measure, and would be slated to be dropped from a later cygwin package after a certain amount of time has passed. With regards to the d2u/u2d aliases, for now I'd just modify the cygport script to create those as hardlinks, and not modify or patch the package source at all. Standby... -- 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