On 09/09/2020 11:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 04/09/2020 14:38, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
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>> Thank you, that seemed to work well.
>>
>> New build dependencies added (also util-linux, binutils, cygwin, and
>> coreutils), and updated as a noarch package with no other changes. The
>> new files are in the "noarch" subdirectory at
>> https://www.hamishmb.com/files/cygwin-temp/.
>>
>> I gave the noarch packages I built on 64-bit Cygwin a spin on 32-bit
>> Cygwin too, all seems fine.
>>
>> Hamish
> Just realised, that I forgot (doh!) that both GetDevInfo and
> DDRescue-GUI are in the Parted Magic (www.partedmagic.com) recovery
> toolkit. I work with Patrick Verner to make sure the programs work well
> under that distribution as well. Does this count as a Linux Distribution?
>
> If not, I still need two more votes, and while I know you're all
> probably very busy, it'd be great if a couple more of you could take a
> look at this :)
>
> Hamish

Hmm, who decides (and how) what counts as a Linux distro?

Parted Magic is a live disk/USB that contains a variety of system
recovery tools, but is actively maintained and has a changelog and
quality assurance etc so I suppose it could be included in the
definition of a Linux distro?

Either way, could anyone provide some insight as to whether bundling the
Cygwin DLL would allow Cygwin programs to access the virtual /dev and
/cygdrive paths? I have this all ready to be released for Windows, so
one way or another I'll need to make a bundle anyway for convenience.
It'd be great if it could make it into the official repos but I first
submitted this ITP around a month ago so I don't have high hopes as of
this point.

I will be happy to work on improving device detection/discovery in
Cygwin regardless, as and when time permits.

Hamish