From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27472 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2011 01:53:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 27459 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Sep 2011 01:53:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173013pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:53:37 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [108.7.36.4]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LQT008X1MKWUN90@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:53:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4E5EE593.1080009@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:53:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin package naming? References: <4E5EE340.6010009@cisra.canon.com.au> In-reply-to: <4E5EE340.6010009@cisra.canon.com.au> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: 2011-09/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 8/31/2011 9:43 PM, Luke Kendall wrote: > Can someone with some official Cygwin standing tell me how the Cygwin > package names correspond with the "official" names of the packages, chosen > by the package owners? In other words, how are the Cygwin package names > determined? (My hope is that the "official" name is used, possibly with > "cygwin" added to it in some form.) Sorry, I have no badge and gun but perhaps I will do. > I'm asking because I'm finding Cygwin packages that contain no license > information, at least in the compiled form (e.g. gawk, libiconv2). So I'm > thinking that in such cases, I can modify my Cygwin license-finding script > to look up the package by name on freshmeat and try to find the license from > there. > > But that is pointless if the Cygwin package name may have the same name as a > freshmeat package, but is in fact some other software. How about ? Aside: I had to muster all my strength to keep from using the phrase "Use the source Luke!" I expect you never tire of that. ;-) -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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