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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
To: "Eric Fifer" <egf7 AT columbia DOT edu>,
        "'Gerrit P. Haase'" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>,
        "'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:30:22 +0200
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Subject: RE: Taking over perl maintainance for cygwin?
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> Eric Fifer schrieb am 2001-08-23 6:31:

Hi Eric,

welcome back.

>Unless there are any objections, I'd like to continue on as the Cygwin Perl
>maintainer.
>
>We are now mostly settled in San Francisco, so after a hiatus of having a
>new baby,
>new job and relocating around the world, I'm ready to go.
>
>I have Win2K loaded, a DSL connection and a couple free hours every evening
>after my daughter goes to sleep.
>
>I also have that work I was meaning to upload.  I'll work on getting a new
>release out ASAP.
>
>Any objections?

No Sir;)

You may have a look a my build from this week, there is a patch against 
perl-5.6.1 included which applies all changes to the sources up to patchlevel
11599, plus some minor changes (as you did at the trial release).
Also there is a patch against libnet-1.0704 because of some test failures.
The TermReadKey patch is also included, so you will not have much work for this.

http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/perl/
                        ^^^^^ NO TYPO:)

I suggest you will include also the Bundle::CPAN module that was missing
from the Test-release.

I included the manpages in my build, because now we may use bzip2 for 
compression, so the ball gets a little smaller.

I'm working now to include Bundle::LWP, too, plus some additional modules
like Time::HiRes which will be a core module in future (5.8) and some others
like:
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Alias/Alias-2.32.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Archive/Tar-0.07.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Compress/Compress-Bzip2-1.00.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Dir/Dir-Purge-1.0.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5/GAAS/Digest-1.00.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5/GAAS/Digest-SHA1-2.00.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/MD5/GAAS/SHA-2.01.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/MLDBM/MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz
    ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Storable/Storable-1.0.12.tar.gz

I will work further on to build a nice perl-version for Cygwin with cygipc if 
this works, with libdb, with libiconv and with some more modules.
Mainly i want to get out a perl with Tk;)

Please let us/me know, if you like to share ideas/patches.

Main Job at the moment, as Chuck has mentioned is to try to link against
automode.o to get rid of the CR/LF problem and to include all Cygwin-specific
patches which were made to bleadperl, but not to maint/perl.

So long,

Gerrit

>Regards,
>
>Eric Fifer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:56 AM
>To: Gerrit P. Haase
>Cc: egf7 AT columbia DOT edu
>Subject: Taking over perl maintainance for cygwin?
>
>
>
>>>"I have some work to the perl package that I've been meaning to upload"
>>>
>>>I don't know any more details, and obviously the "upload" never
>>>happened.  You probably ought to contact him (if possible) and find out
>>>what patches he had cooking.  It seems pretty obvious that the recent
>>>changes in his life have made it difficult for him to actively maintain
>>>perl; he probably won't object to you taking over.
>>>
>>>Contact me off-list for his new email address (I'm not sure he wants
>>>this one available to the spam-bots so I don't want to post it here)
>
>
>You can reach Eric Fifer at egf7 AT columbia DOT edu
>
>--Chuck
>
>P.S. I found this 'to-do' list from Eric in my archive (this is from Jan 17
>2001):
>
>
>+ gcc -mno-win32
>   I haven't tried this with Perl, but it suspect it will work.  However,
>   some modules like Tk may be affected.
><csw: no longer important; "-mno-win32" is the default now>
>
>+ in place editing (that replaces original)
>   I'll make it so it warns instead of clobbering files, but I doubt
>   whether I can make the changes so that it really works.
><csw: there was a patch on the list recently to make cygwin-perl behave
>like activestate perl in this respect>
>
>+ update README.cygwin to reflect recent changes
>
>+ fake perl man page => use perldoc ...
>
>+ Problems that need investigation:
>   + something seems to be wrong with reading files in text mode,
>     in additional to a real problem (perhaps with Cygwin) there is
>     the usual binmode/textmode confusion
><csw: link against automode.o ?>
>
>   + open3, there was a complaint--I never looked into it
>
>+ try with bind package (Stephen Biggs)
><csw: this was not intended for the "official" perl package since bind
>is not an officially-distributed package; Eric just wanted to see if it
>would work>
>
>+ send in patches to perl5-porters
>
>
>



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