From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITP] ragel 7.0.0.11
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15a959a2-dabd-ea3c-771a-7217f947c9a3@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87va4rbmmk.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 11/20/2018 2:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> This package depends on the two previously ITP'd packages, kelbt and colm, so it
>> probably can't be reviewed easily until those are in the distro.
>>
>> ragel is in Debian and Fedora:
>
> Just out of curiosity, what are you intending to use it for? Also, why
> did you go for the development rather than the stable version, which is
> usually available as ragel-6 in Linux? As a practical consequence of
> that, the description string you copied (?) from the Linux packages is
> currently missing the additional target languages that were added back
> to ragel-7, unless you didn't configure them (I didn't check).
I needed ragel for building harfbuzz from its git repo (so that I could submit
some patches). I chose the development version because that's what Fedora
packages. The description is just the first paragraph of
http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/. But the build does support several
languages that aren't mentioned there.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 14:55 Ken Brown
2018-11-15 16:09 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-11-20 19:00 ` Achim Gratz
2018-11-20 21:08 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2018-11-25 19:34 ` Achim Gratz
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