From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13892 invoked by alias); 13 May 2014 14:36:30 -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 13863 invoked by uid 89); 13 May 2014 14:36:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-ie0-f170.google.com) (209.85.223.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 13 May 2014 14:36:27 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id ar20so406318iec.1 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 07:36:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vB3v/oS5TvrcBIFQF7uZ19P2RhUe6qkYmackf+cwBt4=; b=USd2xDhQpn/QEiiQjBkxx8rI631o0+FXjNhPP5Y5CMAJDyztzYIXqkPAFgRT0iIpdC jM7e1sitQtYC4ujTf0QWoZV3Y78ru+vAns311vB8sW3Kei9vkeJ7vauU5unFf6PuoPfB ASwluWve2K8HjY2eYa6Mb0/aKNnehOtBPfxk1DlQ/62rz/f7WNtGO8xOfJptrykpD334 S7xIkKKdWWNBVEdDtv9oiPk6tYBT5FL5rOtArnDhSnfueaBhSm/iQ4vITCk3wn05OnOh M+apqy0ebSNvnmr1S3/nazcLOxuc/4BEa14nHKSyZCtxjEZ88k1egicAk6fDfeo/nJZm 9vVg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmDXuNgaJHXpMQ+gAg+VNNFOc9facpG47cIh/kaa808WUPlPppnAMPi8147cr0PXrT2qlIh X-Received: by 10.50.143.107 with SMTP id sd11mr57438992igb.39.1399991785970; Tue, 13 May 2014 07:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.15.33] ([174.47.110.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id sc2sm30516234igb.5.2014.05.13.07.36.24 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 13 May 2014 07:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53722DE7.9060809@breisch.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:52:00 -0000 From: "Chris J. Breisch" User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.9 (Windows/20140128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Update CoreUtils References: <5370E017.5000206@redhat.com> <20140513055627.GA671@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00263.txt.bz2 Steven Penny wrote: > These are major packages, not just "user X favorite package". Several people > including myself have offered to update them, only to be met with "Sorry, I am > maintainer not you. I will do it when I get time". It gets old after a while. > Well, if you don't want to wait, and you're confident of your ability to update, then do so. You don't have to publish the package to use it on your own system. I don't know anything about the git source, but I know that bash and coreutils are a pain to update, because there's so much in both that depends upon Windows text mode/binary mode annoyances. Also, bash (I believe) understands Windows paths, and that doesn't make porting any easier either. I spent a very brief time looking at updating bash myself, and decided it wasn't worth the pain. I've done a little with coreutils in the past, and I suspect if I had to, I could update it using the patches from the last version as a starting point, but I haven't found a need to do so yet. -- Chris J. Breisch -- 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