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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:25:09 +0200
From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NASM package update
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On 8/7/2012 1:06 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 08:48:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>
>> The NASM package in Cygwin is getting a tad long in the tooth.  There is
>> NASM 2.08.02 available, but 2.10.03 is current, i.e. NASM has done two
>> major releases in the meantime.  The package for Cygwin was created
>> over two years ago.
>>
>> Newer NASM versions are required to assemble modern software, notably
>> libav.  Now I'd like to know if anybody is working on updating the
>> NASM package in Cygwin or is planning to do it in the somewhat near
>> future.
>
> Who is the maintainer of the NASM package?  Yaakov Selkowitz yesterday
> created a skeleton package of NASM for Cygwin ports:
>
> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/nasm
>
> Is there a chance this might be used to replace the official package
> in Cygwin?
>
> best regards, Diego
>

Tha maintainer is Dean Scarff
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint

but it is a while that we wrote anything on the cygwin mailing lists


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