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[95.84.200.6]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a11sm306869lfi.20.2019.03.05.06.23.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Mar 2019 06:23:40 -0800 (PST) To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: LRN Subject: Re: cygwin port of glib Message-ID: Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:23:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rZaYRsf7wErWxgitsqWfwtZffJiapkfoo" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 --rZaYRsf7wErWxgitsqWfwtZffJiapkfoo Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nEkp1y1Y5n76sMkUvD9X4yJBSElG7BQ03"; protected-headers="v1" From: LRN To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygwin port of glib --nEkp1y1Y5n76sMkUvD9X4yJBSElG7BQ03 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1250 On 05.03.2019 17:07, E. Madison Bray wrote: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 11:07 AM LRN wrote: >> >> Looking at cygwin glib source package, i see a lot of downstream patches >> applied to glib over the years (there are no dates, but the versions ran= ge from >> 2.34.3 to 2.50 - that might be as early as 2012 and as late as 2017) to = make it >> work correctly on cygwin. >> >> Why are these not upstream (considering the fact that glib does have some >> cygwin-specific code - clearly it's not because glib doesn't *want* cygw= in >> compatibility)? >> > but in > this case I would suggest that, if you care enough to do it, you > should offer to upstream that they accept some/all of those patches, > as in most cases they may not even be aware it exists. My guess is > that whoever is maintaining the glib package for Cygwin That would probably be Yaakov Selkowitz[0]. > either doesn't > know glib well enough to be able to advocate effectively for those > patches, or doesn't care enough to. >=20 > If they're clean, worthwhile patches then I absolutely think you > should get them integrated upstream if at all possible--that's almost > always preferable. Okay, i'll see what i can do. 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