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:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=nKAWgGZx9RRR+hTD
	Dr3nXx8pu2uz47Zr7uMz3OiMxe80eyOo5NQKjD91Aq43mBvM/JMFiaO+yJLe3r+A
	/2XgCA5jD1d+Vjh1Vu8FzNbNx/ojBi6h9hURsPhBAhlDuLVjZxN0qRVaA6l3+B9M
	3fNlRr7N0dSzye8wri+my44o6Z8=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Request new Ruby release
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <5d32508b-8936-26b2-6eec-c1bb07f6cdb0 AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> <5aec4d68 DOT 1c69fb81 DOT f5182 DOT 7ad5 AT mx DOT google DOT com>
From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
Message-ID: <c7343c4c-d1e8-1356-138a-6b3e72082852@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 15:16:49 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <5aec4d68.1c69fb81.f5182.7ad5@mx.google.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 5/4/2018 2:09 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 00:05:23, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> For an understaffed, all-volunteer effort, Cygwin does a tremendous job
>> providing us with a compatible, reliable, stable subsystem working 
>> environment,
>> running in a less stable environment.
>> Cygwin seems to keep up to date with stable releases of important 
>> packages
>> better than distros who have full time staff, many more volunteers, 
>> and don't
>> also have to deal with an alien environment.
> 
> Cygwin is a fantastic project. and yaakov handles a massive amount of 
> packages,
> and i commend him for that. but lets not kid ourselves, ok? cygwin 
> *does* keep
> up to date with *some* important packages as you say, but not other 
> important
> packages. for example, GCC, is over a year old:

Steven,
I do not see you doing any package activity release,
so you should refrain to comment on how we (package maintainers)
use our own spare time for this project.

Please note that sometime, things are broken upstream
and it takes time and it could require not available capability to
solve the issues.
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2018-03/msg00014.html

If you want to help for a new package release that you care,
try to build it, check that every thing is in place,
provide if needed patches and guidance and I am almost sure
the relative maintainer will appreciate your effort.
I surely did
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2018-02/msg00142.html

Regards
Marco


--
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