From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15327 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2012 02:35:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 15234 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Oct 2012 02:35:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f171.google.com) (209.85.223.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:35:23 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id s9so2313335iec.2 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.214.10 with SMTP id nw10mr7410206igc.31.1349922922843; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.200.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mi10sm2799342igc.16.2012.10.10.19.35.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1349922922.5388.17.camel@YAAKOV04> Subject: Re: Relationship between Cygwin and Cygwin Ports From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 02:35:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <50720389.8060208@tiscali.co.uk> References: <50720389.8060208@tiscali.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 23:34 +0100, David Stacey wrote: > Earlier this evening I submitted an ITP for yasm. I didn't realise at > that point that yasm was available in Cygwin Ports - which means that I > have probably just trodden on Yaakov's toes, and for that I apologise. Don't worry about it. I do ask that people check with me first before moving Ports packages into the distro, so that I can make sure there are no reasons not to, or in case I'd really rather maintain the package myself. yasm is a straight-forward package, and I have no objections to handing it over if you are prepared to maintain it. > Please could someone kindly explain the difference between Cygwin and > Cygwin Ports. Why are they kept separate, and under what circumstances > could a package migrate between the two? Apologies if I should know > this, but there doesn't appear to be mention of it in the Cygwin FAQ. Marco mostly covered this already. Ports is an additional package repository which augments, and is built on top of, the main Cygwin distro. Some packages may require additional testing or dependencies, others may be of only limited interest, and many are there just because its easier for me than ITPing them one-by-one. That's why it's best if you check first. (Python3 and TeX Live are recent examples of packages which others have taken over from Ports, with my assistance.) HTH, Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple