From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from newjersey.metaed.com (newjersey.metaed.com [45.33.116.78]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C14503858D28 for ; Wed, 3 May 2023 20:50:51 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org C14503858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=newjersey.metaed.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=newjersey.metaed.com Received: by newjersey.metaed.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 268262F528; Wed, 3 May 2023 20:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 20:50:51 +0000 From: metaed@newjersey.metaed.com To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: how to contribute a noarch utility without porting Icon, Noweb, and Cygport Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: I want to contribute a Cygwin port of my utility program "dtt". It is an architecture-independent executable written in Perl 5 plus a man page. It comes with supplementary docs in /usr/share/doc, including the complete source. The package is built from source using the Noweb litprog tool, which also requires the Icon programming language. Porting these to Cygwin could be a huge undertaking. It would be much simpler for me to cross-compile, for lack of a better term, where those tools are ported already -- namely, Slackware. Instead of porting Cygport to Slackware, again it would be much simpler for me to create the "binary" tarball and .hint file, a la , and upload manually to the noarch tree, a la . Is this an objectionable approach? Cheers! Edward