Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com Subject: Re: Any current plans for an SDL package? Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:14:24 -0500 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <20031122024809 DOT GA28328 AT redhat DOT com> <6 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 22 DOT 0 DOT 20031123173938 DOT 0384b850 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> Reply-To: unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > > >>At 04:40 PM 11/23/2003, unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com you wrote: >> >>>I could also try to compile a Cygwin binary version of the >>>library, but that would be at least slightly harder. >> >>This would be a true Cygwin package so I don't see a reason >>it couldn't be included in setup if it passes successfully >>through the ITP stage. > > > Sure, if he wants to become a maintainer. He seemed to wrote > the opposite in his first e-mail: > > "If nobody plans on creating such a package i may be able to, > however i warn you now: i do not intend on become a cygwin > package maintaner." > > You don't want another person who submits a package and doesn't > maintain it. The Links package is a good example. > Yes i will not be able to maintain it, however i doubt that it would be too very hard to find a maintainer, as the packages are already maintained for compiling under windows, so all that would actually be nessisary is to compile it for cygwin after each new release. The key is finding any header files that are needed that you cannot get through cygwin. (Not a big deal, but this has been the true cause of many a message posted to this list regarding SDL.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/