From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85200 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2015 23:20:12 -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 85191 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2015 23:20:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: eastrmfepo202.cox.net Received: from eastrmfepo202.cox.net (HELO eastrmfepo202.cox.net) (68.230.241.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:20:11 +0000 Received: from eastrmimpo306 ([68.230.241.238]) by eastrmfepo202.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20150910232009.WKAZ17465.eastrmfepo202.cox.net@eastrmimpo306> for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:20:09 -0400 Received: from [68.0.254.104] ([68.0.254.104]) by eastrmimpo306 with cox id FbL81r00L2Fuz4c01bL9Zc; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:20:09 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KfoMR3kD c=1 sm=1 a=E2TABC3fJca0I99Ic2bSGA==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=iqsafd-9AAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=CCpqsmhAAAAA:8 a=LGnneuRQflMujYifYPgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=jvtzCbQpa24A:10 a=GuMl1JTVVbsA:10 a=bAM1A8XvWKYA:10 a=E2TABC3fJca0I99Ic2bSGA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; auth=pass (CRAM-MD5) smtp.auth=superbiskit@cox.net Subject: Re: Repositories for Cygwin packages. To: cygwin@cygwin.com, marco.atzeri@gmail.com References: <55F1EAA8.5020806@cox.net> From: David A Cobb Reply-To: Cygwin Mailing List Message-ID: <55F2102B.70900@cox.net> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/43.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00167.txt.bz2 On 2015-09-10 17:03, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/09/2015 22:40, David A Cobb wrote: >> I see the Git Repo for "the core Cygwin libraries and utilities (Cygwin >> and Newlib)" @ sourceware.com. >> >> I am looking at possible work within *COREUTILS*. Obviously, there are >> significant deltas /versus/ GNU Upstream. >> Can you point me to the active repo for coreutils? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html Yeah, Marco. Thanks. Actually, the repo is . Are you saying that is your direct upstream and your sources only differ by the patchfiles installed by Cygwin-Setup?? >> >> Just to save net traffic, I'll dare post a second related question in >> the same message: >> Is *NEWLIB* intended to be a "drop-in" replacement for *GNULIB*? > > No. > https://sourceware.org/newlib/ > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html > > Roughly: > Newlib target is to provide a system libc. > > Gnulib target is to provide a modular library implementation for > software that aim on multi-platform builds. > Regards > Marco > I should have phrased the question differently, I guess. My question is related to dependencies of the 'coreutils.' Cloning GNU Coreutils comes in with sub-module 'gnulib'. Suppose I wanted to propose a patch to Coreutils, but being stuck on a Windows platform I use Coreutils only through Cygwin64 and MSYS2. And, suppose for the moment, some of the changes are only relevant to the Windows platform. I don't (yet) know how much GNU (i.e. RMS) really gives a flying bird about making Windows play nice. So, to whom do I propose the changes? I really, really don't want to create a private fork. If I didn't think my ideas are worthy of pushing up the food chain, I should just go back to bed. BTW, and totally irrelevant to the discussion, I'm not really a newbie here. But for several years I had a working Ubuntu installation, so I didn't keep up with the list. And now, I'm back on a borrowed Windows machine. I just want to do some useful stuff on it. -- 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