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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
To: "'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: whois package
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:57:34 -0500 
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Going back to dig and host, I'm guessing that the maintainer would need to
actually be a maintainer for the whole bind package?  Am I right in assuming
that having bind as a cygwin package would provide libresolv functionality,
or would more be required.

BTW, I can get bind 9.2 to compile with some modification....

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:55 AM
> To: Mark Bradshaw
> Cc: 'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Re: whois package
> 
> 
> Hallo Mark,
> 
> 2001-12-07 09:31:41, du schriebst:
> 
> > I would be interested in being a package maintainer for GNU 
> whois (and maybe
> > dig and host down the road).  Any interest in such?
> 
> Yes I'm interested;)
> 
> Which whois do you want to maintain?
> http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/jwhois.html
> http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/whois.html
> 
> And dig and host are from the bind package?
> There are no resolv functions in cygwin, so libresolv or 
> libbind is needed too,
> will you maintain that too?
> 
> Gerrit
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