Re: [ITP] libargp 20110921-1 (ping)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:06:36AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I'd like to package and maintain libargp for Cygwin.  argp is a C interface for
>> processing command line arguments.
>> 
>> The libargp source files are taken from gnulib.  gnulib is a well-known program
>> available in major Linux distros (e.g. http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnulib),
>> but I'm not aware of any distros that separately package just argp from it.  So
>> I'm not sure if libargp needs to be voted on or not for inclusion in Cygwin.
>> 
>> Documentation:     http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html
>> Source home page:  http://www.gnu.org/s/gnulib/MODULES.html
>> License:           LGPL
>
>Package maintainers, please consider voting in favor of libargp for Cygwin.
>
>I don't know of any rule that says I can't vote for my own package, so I'm
>voting +1 for libargp.  I want it specifically to use with nosleep [1].  I
>could have just baked the argp source files statically into nosleep, but they
>would have made up the bulk of the code, which seemed silly.  It seems better
>to make libargp available for shared use.

I think the fact that other releases contain an implementation of argp should
be good enough to make its inclusion a foregone conclusion.  I do hope that
someday the package can go away and this functionality can be added to the
Cygwin DLL though.

So, all we need is a GTG on packaging.

The same doesn't apply to the "nosleep" package, of course.

cgf