Re: Updating glib2 in cygwin

Re: Updating glib2 in cygwin

[Ken Brown]

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On 2/28/2022 3:49 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi Ken
> 
> I am a qemu developer at Red Hat. The "official" qemu Windows build
> uses cygwin, and the glib version there is quite old.
> 
> I saw you have made some effort to update the package
> (https://www.cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/glib2.0.git;a=search;h=refs/heads/playground;s=Ken+Brown;st=author)
> 
> What's the situation? Is there a bug tracking the issues?

Hi Marc,

The last discussion of this that I can recall started here:

   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-May/040105.html

What's needed is for someone to adopt all of the GNOME components and maintain 
them.  As you'll see in the discussion I cited, I briefly considered updating 
only glib2 and a few others, but then I decided that I wasn't willing to take 
the responsibility of fixing/updating other components that broke as a result of 
this.  So I pushed what I had done and left it there.

It would be great if someone would step up and take over, but I'm not in a 
position to do that myself.

Ken

Re: Updating glib2 in cygwin

[Jon Turney]

On 28/02/2022 13:29, Ken Brown wrote:
> [Redirecting to the cygwin-apps list]
> 
> On 2/28/2022 3:49 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> I am a qemu developer at Red Hat. The "official" qemu Windows build
>> uses cygwin, and the glib version there is quite old.
>>
>> I saw you have made some effort to update the package
>> (https://www.cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/glib2.0.git;a=search;h=refs/heads/playground;s=Ken+Brown;st=author)
>>
>> What's the situation? Is there a bug tracking the issues?
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> The last discussion of this that I can recall started here:
> 
>    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-May/040105.html
> 
> What's needed is for someone to adopt all of the GNOME components and 
> maintain them.  As you'll see in the discussion I cited, I briefly 
> considered updating only glib2 and a few others, but then I decided that 
> I wasn't willing to take the responsibility of fixing/updating other 
> components that broke as a result of this.  So I pushed what I had done 
> and left it there.
> 
> It would be great if someone would step up and take over, but I'm not in 
> a position to do that myself.

Since this is possibly the most important unmaintained package (it's #1 
by dependencies on this list [1]), I guess I'll adopt it.

I see you got as far as 2.64.3 [2].  I'm inclined to deploy that (maybe 
as test) and deal with the fallout myself, while I work on bringing it 
completely up to date.

Any issues I should be aware or, or other problems you foresee with that 
approach?


[1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/unmaintained.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/glib2.0/log/?h=playground

Re: Updating glib2 in cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 6/11/2023 1:55 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 28/02/2022 13:29, Ken Brown wrote:
>> The last discussion of this that I can recall started here:
>>
>>    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-May/040105.html
>>
>> What's needed is for someone to adopt all of the GNOME components and 
>> maintain them.  As you'll see in the discussion I cited, I briefly 
>> considered updating only glib2 and a few others, but then I decided 
>> that I wasn't willing to take the responsibility of fixing/updating 
>> other components that broke as a result of this.  So I pushed what I 
>> had done and left it there.
>>
>> It would be great if someone would step up and take over, but I'm not 
>> in a position to do that myself.
> 
> Since this is possibly the most important unmaintained package (it's #1 
> by dependencies on this list [1]), I guess I'll adopt it.
> 
> I see you got as far as 2.64.3 [2].  I'm inclined to deploy that (maybe 
> as test) and deal with the fallout myself, while I work on bringing it 
> completely up to date.
> 
> Any issues I should be aware or, or other problems you foresee with that 
> approach?

Nothing I'm aware of.  Thanks for taking this on!

Ken