X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5020FB15.9090500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:25:09 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: NASM package update References: <20120806184846 DOT GC32187 AT pool DOT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> <20120807110611 DOT GA8907 AT pool DOT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20120807110611.GA8907@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple