Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:17:57 -0700 From: Geoffrey Noer To: "Robert O. Morris" Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, Distributed Oceanographic Data Server Subject: Re: Returning modified code to the Cygwin Community Message-ID: <19990804141757.A730@cygnus.com> References: <000001bed94f$1c23bae0$311f4e89 AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <000001bed94f$1c23bae0$311f4e89@jpl.nasa.gov>; from Robert O. Morris on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:15:40PM -0700 My suggestion would be to contact the authors of those original projects. I have talked with the folks at capgemini.fr about including the ipc libraries in the base distribution but since the work includes modified Linux kernel sources and we need a copyright assignment, it's not likely to happen soon. It would still be good for that library to get the benefit of your cleanup work since a good number of people use that stuff. I would still like to see IPC support added to Cygwin but it will need to be either a fresh implementation or one based on less restrictive licensing terms. Maybe this will happen some day but I don't think we've heard from any volunteers yet. :-) And please contact Corinna for the RPC changes. Best regards, Geoffrey Noer Email: noer AT cygnus DOT com Cygnus Solutions On Wed, Jul 28, 1999, Robert O. Morris wrote: > > I recently ported a rather large project to Cygwin and I > had to modify a couple of Cygwin-related projects to get > things to work for me. > > I thought that if I sent email to the group, this would > start the process of getting some of this back into Cygwin - > and make our lives easier here (JPL and the DODS Group) and > elsewhere in the long run by having this (possibly) incorporated > back into the original distributions for this stuff. > > . . . in the spirit of the open source movement . . . sharing . . . > > These include the following for Cygwin 20.1B: > > 1) RPC Library for Cygwin 20.1B, starting with Corinna's stuff mentioned > on the Cygwin Home Page. > > binaries: http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/rpclib.bin.tar.gz > source : http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/rpc-4.0.src.tar.gz > > Description: Rather extensive modification (mostly) to allow them to > to compile and link from either C or C++. Things needed > reorganized quite a bit. I'm not sure how much of this > got exercised in our port project - but whatever did, > works. > > 2) Hdf4.1r2 for Cygwin 20.1B > > binaries: http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/hdf.bin.tar.gz > Source : http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/hdf.src.tar.gz > > I simply got the source code and applied a patch from a guy at Goddard > that (at some point) had made it for B19. I can't remember making any > other mods to this except general clean-up. It was originally from > ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/ncsa/. > > 3) IPC Library and tools for Cygwin 20.1B. > > http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/cygwinB20IPC.tar.gz. This > originally came from http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/ > and (if memory serves) mods were just general clean-up. > > I'd like to see some of this moved out of dods.jpl.nasa.gov and put under > control elsewhere if possible. > > Someone in the know . . . . please advise. > > Rob Morris > Jet Propulsion Laboratory > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com