X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=hTBO/Vcub+K8jfa2EsJewRXoT6YgryfInlwinzLv1R1tAwNNep9jb Ie9gtOkp3IJ6zYdgVbPQgflEoEyO05WtyL+HrJNTEp79ELl27yt6ZXz8OQ/xlDOw Zx5DksQiBKMKRLgaZpo2Lda4tPpTaoxcKPlUa0uv1PymOJ1TkM19eI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=cNnCwq8DFU3/eHjzN8BM10DaEP0=; b=Z0C07sehJ7u8KG5RZBxCH1GoUkmm WI085luS/NDrWRpBXcqtqkFn+Px0wCWUsIxpsKqf3lrWztNZ1SFiaYvNw+Lv5Kdx HpdF1SmAUcFZFBxOyvza+9fOvuJP4UItVb1mBHShQ/30ATm/zMqDgltXGrNd7vcj oOaSxiUT8DYa4RU= 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 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19LMMB4Hfq74Cfx/+kyIzIN Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:34:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin) Message-ID: <20130621143411.GA5918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <51C0B08E DOT 8080900 AT etr-usa DOT com> <51C0D956 DOT 4090905 AT etr-usa DOT com> <51C1B299 DOT 1000701 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <51C1F0F9 DOT 70601 AT etr-usa DOT com> <51C1FA8E DOT 3000307 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <51C33F38 DOT 4080103 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20130620181056 DOT GA16923 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <74f7s89jvij7188akllq0l4qpp0i2ju35q AT 4ax DOT com> <20130621074934 DOT GF1620 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130621074934.GF1620@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. >> > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and >> > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms >> > could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there. >> >> That would be cool. Let's do it! > >Uhm, that was a projection into the ideal future. No provisions have >been made yet. We need to set up a central repository like Yaakov's >cygwinports git repo and a central build mechanism. The first we can >probably shamelessly copy from Yaakov and set up over the next few >months, the second needs a bit of hacking. I'm not sure if this reminder is needed but, I'm not switching to cygport and I believe there are also a couple of other people using non-cygport packagers as well. -- 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