Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1999/11/18/20:24:39
Hi Chris,
I may be interested, but I need more info on what is involved in
"maintaining packages".
John
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> I sent a plea to the cygwin mailing list asking for volunteers to
> maintain packages but didn't get much response. So, I'm trying
> the same thing here with high hopes that I'll get a better response.
>
> I would like the next release of cygwin to be a joint effort by
> a number of people. I would like volunteers to be responsible
> for building and maintaining various parts of the distribution.
>
> Basically, I see it broken down like this:
>
> Package Maintainer
> --------------------------------------------------
> ash cgf
> bash ???
> bash, bison, lex ??? (not much activity anticipated here)
> binutils mumit?
> bzip2 ???
> cygwin DLL and utilities cgf, dj
> diff ???
> fileutils ???
> findutils ???
> gawk ???
> gcc mumit?
> gdb cgf
> grep ???
> gzip ???
> less ???
> libiberty cgf, dj (need to coordinate with gcc/gdb maintainer)
> make ???
> man ???
> man pages ???
> ncurses ???
> sed ???
> tar ???
> texinfo ???
> textutils ???
> time ???
> top-level configure/make/include cgf, dj
>
> I'm undoubtedly missing something here, but I thought I'd throw this out
> to see if anyone has any thoughts or would like to volunteer.
>
> What I would like to do is break each of these up into its own tar file
> and then provide the maintainer with a way to upload updated tar files
> into an incoming area. The tar files will be semi-automatically updated
> in some kind of new download area. This will allow us to keep cygwin
> as an evolving entity. It will also mean that we might need to add
> version numbers to the individual packages.
>
> Btw, the next version of Cygwin will be 1.1.0. DJ and I have decided to
> adopt the linux method for numbering releases.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> cgf
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