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:subject:to:references:from:reply-to:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=AktOxnfwkaLTUq0t a6anl7570en7hjSyVPD+pBaW2S6Jq5d2h7kTVE2c0rXrgTDLHdtgCGX8Xfney95l KSC6B+WkPAEFCTGapA6PXQ5rv+nER+WgLhoxj1Fg5YQJTR3ugdpSdlw+3r5FRkx+ 5aUGSYt1NgT3kex13qlC6Mb2OHg= 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:subject:to:references:from:reply-to:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=M7bIgP6ijGCCmAgSZ3mJNL 4wb64=; b=bdjQjMcyXJZvIxpqqvgOjY2q2qdO46ELyoHzamUbKdVEAs4b4GAKBx YmvbaFMLTAfUw7/o6Wgwt63zaYVcHEdmoBtnZx9gk0wM6A5j96BRvLISj5zX429H PXVhP2fSn/cEztbAytKPnLpQwK/gEZaNPKrEeJen9SafOPQ/e/C1U= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: eastrmfepo202.cox.net X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KfoMR3kD c=1 sm=1 a=E2TABC3fJca0I99Ic2bSGA==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=iqsafd-9AAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=CCpqsmhAAAAA:8 a=LGnneuRQflMujYifYPgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=jvtzCbQpa24A:10 a=GuMl1JTVVbsA:10 a=bAM1A8XvWKYA:10 a=E2TABC3fJca0I99Ic2bSGA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; auth=pass (CRAM-MD5) smtp.auth=superbiskit AT cox DOT net Subject: Re: Repositories for Cygwin packages. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com References: <55F1EAA8 DOT 5020806 AT cox DOT net> From: David A Cobb Reply-To: Cygwin Mailing List Message-ID: <55F2102B.70900@cox.net> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:20:11 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/43.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2015-09-10 17:03, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/09/2015 22:40, David A Cobb wrote: >> I see the Git Repo for "the core Cygwin libraries and utilities (Cygwin >> and Newlib)" @ sourceware.com. >> >> I am looking at possible work within *COREUTILS*. Obviously, there are >> significant deltas /versus/ GNU Upstream. >> Can you point me to the active repo for coreutils? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html Yeah, Marco. Thanks. Actually, the repo is . Are you saying that is your direct upstream and your sources only differ by the patchfiles installed by Cygwin-Setup?? >> >> Just to save net traffic, I'll dare post a second related question in >> the same message: >> Is *NEWLIB* intended to be a "drop-in" replacement for *GNULIB*? > > No. > https://sourceware.org/newlib/ > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html > > Roughly: > Newlib target is to provide a system libc. > > Gnulib target is to provide a modular library implementation for > software that aim on multi-platform builds. > Regards > Marco > I should have phrased the question differently, I guess. My question is related to dependencies of the 'coreutils.' Cloning GNU Coreutils comes in with sub-module 'gnulib'. Suppose I wanted to propose a patch to Coreutils, but being stuck on a Windows platform I use Coreutils only through Cygwin64 and MSYS2. And, suppose for the moment, some of the changes are only relevant to the Windows platform. I don't (yet) know how much GNU (i.e. RMS) really gives a flying bird about making Windows play nice. So, to whom do I propose the changes? I really, really don't want to create a private fork. If I didn't think my ideas are worthy of pushing up the food chain, I should just go back to bed. BTW, and totally irrelevant to the discussion, I'm not really a newbie here. But for several years I had a working Ubuntu installation, so I didn't keep up with the list. And now, I'm back on a borrowed Windows machine. I just want to do some useful stuff on it. -- 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