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 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:00:17 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <51-1175292902.20040609170017@familiehaase.de> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com CC: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Call for contributors / maintainers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello All, I'm looking for helpers. Goal is to get all (or most) base libraries into the Cygwin net release so you could try to build GUI applications that don't need a full blown GNOME desktop (e.g. Abiword, DIA, GIMP, Gnucash, Gnumeric, Sketch, Sodipodi from www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ or wvWare, Inkscape, Gnofract 4D, Conglomerate, GtkAda, Terraform, Bluefish to mention just a few;) and on the long end, to get a full blown GNOME desktop for Cygwin. What is still missing is the base of most of these packages: glib/gtk+, I've already finished the build of glib-2.4.2 but atk, pango, gtk+ are pending. I'll offer to include these four base libraries all together in the next few days (if everything works as expected). Good news is, glib builds with minor tweaks and all tests but one are passing (including all threads tests, the test that fails is based on fork() and I guess there is some problem with the test, but not with glib or cygwin). I already have offered some libraries, e.g. littlecms/lcms and libmng are already uploaded to the mirrors, libxml2, libxslt, freetype2, fontconfig are already Cygwin packages, curently waiting for review is libart_lgpl. There are some more base libraries which needs to be included to get GUI applications and later GNOME up and running, since there are so many, I cannot mention all here. Have a look here for what is needed for a full GNOME desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.6/2.6.1/sources/ Many of the GNOME sources build without problems, however, there are few packages which will need some more investigation. Many of the Office applications: http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ will run without full GNOME, e.g. GIMP or Sodipodi. See the requirements for GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/source/ The basic requirements are already available now (after libart was reviewed and uploaded), but I want also the plugins, from the plugin requirements is still missing: librsvg, Scalable Vector Graphics. To have a complete librsvg package, gdk-pixbuf is needed which itself needs glib/gtk+ and it is the same game with other libraries, you got the picture. What I'm looking for now are volunteers who want to contribute and *maintain* one, two or more packages. Some are without dependencies and not difficult to build, e.g. littlecms is a small C library, very fast and stable. There will be no more than two or three updates a year. There are existing packages which you make take over from me or from other maintainers so they / me have a little more time to work on new packages, there are lots of libraries which I have currently on my todo list, so no need to take over the boring job of maintaining a package which doesn't require more than occasionally rebuilds. You may say, "I want to have Gnucash", so go get the sources, and try to build it. If there are prerequisites missing, ask if somewhere available already and if not, build them too and offer them for inclusion. Some basic information about how to contrbute / maintain a package are available online: http://cygwin.com/setup.html Get started now! Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/