cygport 0.36.2-1

cygport 0.36.2-1

[Jon Turney]

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* cygport-0.36.1-1

cygport is the standard method for building and maintaining
packages for the Cygwin distribution.

Highlights of this release:

Stripping of executables is now parallelized.  With many cores, this can 
result in a large speed up for packages with many executable files. 
(Thanks to Achim Gratz)


Achim Gratz (1):
       lib/src_postinst.cygpart: parallelize __prepstrip

Brian Inglis (1):
       lib/src_fetch.cygpart: iterate thru mirror lists if downloads fail

Jon Turney (4):
       Try to turn case-sensitivity on for the working directory on Cygwin
       autotools: Update documented range of WANT_AUTOMAKE values
       Move creation of dbgsrc.out.0 before checking if RESTRICT 
contains 'strip'
       Bump version to 0.36.2

Ken Brown (1):
       git: Try 'main' if there's no master branch

Marco Atzeri (1):
       python-wheel: Allow projects without setup.py or setup.cfg, only 
pyproject.toml (PEP 518)

Re: cygport 0.36.2-1

[Jon Turney]

On 13/04/2023 17:20, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> 
> * cygport-0.36.1-1


Oops. Wrong list. Sorry.

Re: cygport 0.36.2-1

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-04-13 10:27, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 13/04/2023 17:20, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>> * cygport-0.36.1-1

> Oops. Wrong list. Sorry.

No worries ;^>

While you're here, I just recently noticed that xargs has a flag:

	-P, --max-procs[ =]max-procs

so we can easily use `nproc`, $((`nproc`+1)) like make, or $((`nproc`-1)) to be 
nice, to handle parallelizable commands on long lists of files, perhaps for 
Preparing debuginfo source files?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Re: cygport 0.36.2-1

[Jon Turney]

On 13/04/2023 17:51, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2023-04-13 10:27, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 13/04/2023 17:20, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>> * cygport-0.36.1-1
> 
>> Oops. Wrong list. Sorry.
> 
> No worries ;^>
> 
> While you're here, I just recently noticed that xargs has a flag:
> 
>      -P, --max-procs[ =]max-procs
> 
> so we can easily use `nproc`, $((`nproc`+1)) like make, or 
> $((`nproc`-1)) to be nice, to handle parallelizable commands on long 
> lists of files, perhaps for Preparing debuginfo source files?

Perhaps.  I suspect that step maybe largely I/O bound, since I think it 
mainly copies a lot of files. (maybe it doesn't need to, and hard links 
would work just as well, idk)

Ideally, the first step in making some performance improvements would be 
to actually profile the existing code in some way, to generate some 
evidence which identifies places where effort would be best spent, 
rather than randomly parallelizing whatever strikes your fancy... but 
then again, I'm not working on it, so you can do whatever you like...