From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 72006 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2016 08:12:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 70358 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2016 08:12:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-92.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Brian, adoption, danger, shipped X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from ipbcc0190b.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (188.192.25.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:11:58 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id AF330A809F2; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:11:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:12:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Cc: Frank Fesevur Subject: Re: Up for adoption: ctags and expat Message-ID: <20160812081156.ea3ylmngpojeub72@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com, Frank Fesevur References: <8B595AA4-99A0-4497-9D8B-AF27D79B28A0@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vzs4vs772hhdvicg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8B595AA4-99A0-4497-9D8B-AF27D79B28A0@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2-neo (2016-07-23) X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 --vzs4vs772hhdvicg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 2074 On Aug 11 17:49, Warren Young wrote: > I=E2=80=99m the current maintainer of these two packages. As it happens, > I have never seriously used either under Cygwin. I only adopted > ctags because it was abandoned in 2003 and was in danger of being > removed from the distribution after repeated attempts to contact its > maintainer in 2005 failed. Since I do use ctags on other platforms, > I decided that I was at least in a position to keep it in Cygwin, > so I adopted it. The situation was less drastic with expat: I simply > took over the package=E2=80=99s maintenance when Brian Dessent stepped do= wn > in 2008. >=20 > The time has come for someone else to maintain these packages. >=20 > But not just anyone. I do not want to drop another twig onto the > back of someone who=E2=80=99s already carrying a lot for the Cygwin proje= ct. > I=E2=80=99d prefer that these packages to go to someone who=E2=80=99s bee= n looking > to jump into Cygwin package maintainership, and has just been waiting > for an excuse.=20 >=20 > These two are a mixed bag when it comes to ease of maintainership,=20 > each for very different reasons. >=20 > The easy part with ctags is that there hasn=E2=80=99t been an upstream=20 > release since 2009, and there is no reason to expect that there will=20 > be another. The hard part is that the shipped Makefile doesn=E2=80=99t > understand how to do out-of-tree builds, something Cygport expects > to be able to do, so I had to write a custom build script to produce=20 > the current packages, which might have to be adjusted by the next > maintainer of this package, if a new version comes out with the same > primitive build system.=20 Given the obvious lack of upstream development, did anybody try to replace exuberant ctags with universal ctags? https://ctags.io/ I noticed that our co-maintainer Frank Fesevur is involved in this project. Frank, any insight? Thanks, Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --vzs4vs772hhdvicg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXrYTMAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gfHkQAKbeCiVwrOODCBfXgAJhSJpG fJdG8MmIiDbd6QxPE3SloDyIV2CSh/vA3Gd9UfN61EUk0IECOcdZUNGAeaLyIr7b 8QDMqAwb8gnpXhb3KcblZWEYO/32lMvaf6PQSQTxjmCqZVTPqETe24Elwtvkp4KD YXvmAEPVE6sKNHVU7LTogTxUWzgL7nWy6XGFBAsPx4C6EsXkdtXsE6Zpc5oh2SWe 4eRVlaqILsYgIiiisppVYVpBQHhsDBrUMpwfXdPn8SP1z075IB31ehYJ0/AhWm/X XKYQO/Ux9CNLtZovoyOtPmHIjK/1aeA5uQmLINrcyU4fdVVUFOjhWACt7U1QBDBE bnH16MjdbaPgjXkGYaVXSyCo51I3nPf2kymPDzYMcXibPqykltt7uLe8/o6p0JZj 8KNLEMTWQyhzhIm1G9EHiQ2/J/8d9JRSC1wHCdJSZBlts7yJppY3WW3L/N4KSstG h5X926m8BOmqekHtnSlcW4OiCMz+fHYr1kXLiWiN4PVyOKSwymuUrHkgSvZNFOBT IfLHr0mUY9wS7zyeevDWpnZUP9yC5qmLJIibmbqDB71oPLtKqHAKKXZuvyuxb78c nE0hNmnaZ+zfbtGbyuGBmJNADfKfJ4lo/LkS+FbBp1kesPGUyL9+Tohy9avJ33Xn REs0I5OGjqdxfG9j2+Ia =Ok/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vzs4vs772hhdvicg--