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 Message-ID: <41617A93.6070203@x-ray.at> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:30:11 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: whole Cygwin release/ distribution issues References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Dave Korn schrieb: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Christensen >>Sent: 03 October 2004 03:15 >>Would you be interested in mentoring a willing volunteer? > Certainly. Just stand still right here for just one minute........ > ****KER-SQUELCH-SPLAT-SMACK**** > [sound of massive slap round face with a very wet kipper] > That'll learn 'im! Wouldn't it be easy for the beginning to gather a list of GTG (good-to-go) stable packages, without any known conflicts. Or much better to gather a list of known conflicts, which have to be resolved/left out/added from/to this distro. The rest can be in then. Don't know how to deal with mixed stable/test builds. E.g. I assume all of gerrits new packages are with latest gcc / libtool-devel, which is still in test. Maybe just start with issues for the binary packages: Issues known to me so far: ITP moratorium / SC (Steering Committee) idea? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html coreutils missing (required) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html apache missing (required) apache-*php* missing (required) mysql missing (required) at least "libmysql" and "mysql-client", "mysql-server" probably not needed. gcc-core > 3.3.3 needs libtool-devel-1.5.10 (still in test) for libtoolized packages: .rdata bug postgreql-7.4.5 pgperl fails libmcrypt needs replacement (mingw build) cygwin-1.5.11-1 pipe bug cygserver on Win95 (already fixed?) gnome2 stable? some packages missing. libcurl pending minor issues with wrong deps for libtool src builders. convenience: * cygcheck -f /usr/dict/words => none * dllwrap docs: no man or info page, not even in the Cygwin/binutils*.README * more init.d scripts for the services, maybe with additional service installers/uninstallers Expected problems: * freshly added gif support in libgd * libungif pending and problematic X dependencies for libtool. * sysbash package pending (to test service problems) * ExplorerHere package pending (often requested feature) * perl layout (better upgrade convenience) * layout stuff: where to put optional or contrib binaries, not to pollute the path /usr/lib//bin/ probably * xemacs 21.5 ?? (japanese need mule support) Timeframe: * wait for gnome2, apache, php and mysql or do without? php will need a lot of convenience extensions and dependent libs * consider list of pending ITP's and not-GTG packages: graphviz, ploticus, libming, t1lib, Swarm, re2c, MTools, cdrtools, EMacro, leafnode, ac-archive, rxp, git, unrtf, lcab, ... all other of the ~100 Jaari ITP's probably not. (esp. when he is very busy now, and it was one year ago) -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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/