Re: Request new Ruby release

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 5/4/2018 2:09 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 00:05:23, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> For an understaffed, all-volunteer effort, Cygwin does a tremendous job
>> providing us with a compatible, reliable, stable subsystem working 
>> environment,
>> running in a less stable environment.
>> Cygwin seems to keep up to date with stable releases of important 
>> packages
>> better than distros who have full time staff, many more volunteers, 
>> and don't
>> also have to deal with an alien environment.
> 
> Cygwin is a fantastic project. and yaakov handles a massive amount of 
> packages,
> and i commend him for that. but lets not kid ourselves, ok? cygwin 
> *does* keep
> up to date with *some* important packages as you say, but not other 
> important
> packages. for example, GCC, is over a year old:

Steven,
I do not see you doing any package activity release,
so you should refrain to comment on how we (package maintainers)
use our own spare time for this project.

Please note that sometime, things are broken upstream
and it takes time and it could require not available capability to
solve the issues.
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2018-03/msg00014.html

If you want to help for a new package release that you care,
try to build it, check that every thing is in place,
provide if needed patches and guidance and I am almost sure
the relative maintainer will appreciate your effort.
I surely did
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2018-02/msg00142.html

Regards
Marco





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