From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25161 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2013 09:11:08 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 25141 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jun 2013 09:11:08 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:11:08 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9790D5200DD; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:11:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:13:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin) Message-ID: <20130624091105.GB14319@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com> <51C1B299.1000701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <51C1F0F9.70601@etr-usa.com> <51C1FA8E.3000307@users.sourceforge.net> <51C33F38.4080103@etr-usa.com> <20130620181056.GA16923@calimero.vinschen.de> <74f7s89jvij7188akllq0l4qpp0i2ju35q@4ax.com> <20130621074934.GF1620@calimero.vinschen.de> <20130621143411.GA5918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130621143411.GA5918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00609.txt.bz2 On Jun 21 10:34, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > >> > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and > >> > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms > >> > could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there. > >> > >> That would be cool. Let's do it! > > > >Uhm, that was a projection into the ideal future. No provisions have > >been made yet. We need to set up a central repository like Yaakov's > >cygwinports git repo and a central build mechanism. The first we can > >probably shamelessly copy from Yaakov and set up over the next few > >months, the second needs a bit of hacking. > > I'm not sure if this reminder is needed but, I'm not switching to > cygport Pity. > and I believe there are also a couple of other people using > non-cygport packagers as well. Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better one. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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