From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77512 invoked by alias); 4 May 2018 13:16:56 -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 73352 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2018 13:16:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=2018-03, 201803, Hx-languages-length:1510, staff X-HELO: mail-wm0-f52.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f52.google.com) (74.125.82.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 May 2018 13:16:53 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id f8-v6so4743903wmc.4 for ; Fri, 04 May 2018 06:16:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Dq0+QWLDxB7qYh8T36II8TjIGoF+pYnComHdBg6FNfo=; b=cFyVh3kYITG4hDk02RkGwVTjXeD3xyAfUm9YW1w0S7Hn1wL+T0AIWFQlV0ufMAEskf Gvu4ACVUSJtYS3IPbcBe9mQ8qQ6E4fN6iypMo5f2URIS/KwSBHJyAvhmWLrvO5wyKOe8 ZbR28YXko0Nc+zw5YJYh7v+281k5Yp8n8l6ldCn0EcuZfp5zKsJbVLUZF5FcgBfmUUKv SfQBlDC+1pMWWjTX1OBip4VLRN7EZKLaKBnO+aA3RO0Yox8y6zZxEqqRGeO3JiLGxfFR DUBEBnrfvATO0CyGMPH4lj7rqYUDcESf/GO0MHMqxwC6Q6ssT9NRd4SMpHvIrYl5aBQb lVGA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tD3FcB+pCE958r1hgaN4VN56k7jNikZBN7wsJ8hitGVaka6X/By omyUp6WKv/JAkAfnb3/6ddYaKYYH X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZruthLG1QZggDKy5ePdkN0PWYO+U9ITP7vu81pxXZfJBcZy+YIbVD0GKq9EZ93Cq0GM3x80QA== X-Received: by 10.28.214.201 with SMTP id n192mr17651169wmg.125.1525439810608; Fri, 04 May 2018 06:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.192.161] ([178.15.39.162]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v192-v6sm1557843wme.45.2018.05.04.06.16.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 May 2018 06:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Request new Ruby release To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5d32508b-8936-26b2-6eec-c1bb07f6cdb0@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <5aec4d68.1c69fb81.f5182.7ad5@mx.google.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 13:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5aec4d68.1c69fb81.f5182.7ad5@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 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 -- 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