On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:45 AM Svante Signell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Flavio, > > I did try to email you 25 September 2019 to your google email address but > did > not get any reply. The current project hurd-cross is a major rewrite of > your > cross-hurd at github. > I did keep your README.md and updated the build procedure in > README.commands. > The name change from cross-hurd to hurd-cross was made to avoid naming > conflicts > with the Debian package crosshurd, which is an installer for the Debian > system. > > Your work was a good starting point for me, that is very appreciated, > thank you. > I linked to your github account in files/README.files and mention > ../README.md > there too. I can of course add a link to your work in README.commands as > well as > add that link to README.md too. > Having a reference in README.me to the original repo is fine with me. I'm happy that you found the original code useful. I will be happy to use your project whenever I decide to try the Hurd again. > Alternately, do you want me to add your name to the files having an origin > of > your work, like: > Copyright (C) 2016 Flavio Cruz, 2019, 2020 Svante Signell > > Written by Flavio Cruz <[email protected]> and Svante Signell < > [email protected]> > > However, doing a recursive diff of the directories there is not much in > common > any longer, except in the files/ directory. > > As you might find out executing the scripts to build and run the hurd-cross > image there are still some FIXMEs to solve. (But it boots and runs, tested > with > qemu). There is also a need to extend the cross-builds to enable > networking on > the built image, as well as doing further extensions, see the TODO file. > Any > help with these things is happily received. > > Looking at your github account you mention a rewrite of mig. Is that > project > also stalled, no updates since 2016? A rewrite of mig would be a major > contribution to the GNU/Hurd OS. > I don't have much time nowadays, but I think the rewrite does what I intended it to do, meaning you can include C header files and use the C types when defining new routines. > Thank you for inspiring me, > Svante Signell > > On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 00:40 -0800, Flávio Cruz wrote: > > Hi Svante > > > > Your hurd-cross project seems to be based on something I did a few years > back > > (https://github.com/flavioc/cross-hurd). I'm glad you want to continue > to > > improve it but please reference the original author. > > > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:36 AM Samuel Thibault <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Svante Signell, le jeu. 13 févr. 2020 17:10:30 +0100, a ecrit: > > > > I've created the hurd-cross (hurdX) package and submitted it as task > > > #15548, see > > > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15548. I was asked by > [email protected] if > > > I > > > > could join "The Hurd group" with it. The project is described in the > task, > > > and I > > > > also have uploaded a tarball. The tarball is created by git archive. > If > > > admitted > > > > to join the group with that package > > > > > > Sure, you're welcome! > > > > > > > I would like to create a git repository at > > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/ or elsewhere. What is the > > > > procedure to create an upstream git repo? > > > > > > I don't know, Thomas, do you know? > > > > > > Samuel > > > > > > > > > -- Flávio Cruz / [email protected]
