On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Daniel, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 um 19:00 schriebst du: > > > This is the list of pending packages as of Tuesday, October 21, 2003. > > [...] > > > Package: check 0.8.4-1 > > Description: A unit test framework for C > > Proposer: Gerrit P. Haase > > Proposal: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00339.html > > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/check-0.8.4-1.tar.bz2 > > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/check-0.8.4-1-src.tar.gz > > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/setup.hint > > Reviews: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (2003-09/msg00345.html) > > Aye votes: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (2003-09/msg00345.html) [1/3] > > Status: Package available. Reviewed. > > HOLD-UPS: Not enough votes (need 2 more). > > Oh girls (and boys), I need it because `make check` for libexpat > depends on it, libexpat is used e.g. by XFree86 and gettext so give me > a chance. I'm willing to maintain it, the review was 'ok', so what is > the problem here? Why are you so picky with your voting? Look at other > distributions packages list, e.g. for Suse you get the DVD with 6000 > packages...
Ok, you've convinced me. This has my vote. > > Package: d 1.2.0-1 > > Description: The Directory Lister > > Proposer: Yaakov Selkowitz > > Proposal: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/d-1.2.0-1.tar.bz2 > > > > http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/d-1.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2 > > http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/setup.hint > > Reviews: Gerrit P. Haase (cygwin-apps-get.11476) > > Aye votes: Gerrit P. Haase (cygwin-apps-get.11476) [1/3] > > Status: Package available. Reviewed. > > HOLD-UPS: Not enough votes (need 2 more). > > How much ITPs where seen without a real interest or ability from the > maintainer tobe? This one is not one of these, I like this tool, that > was the reason I was voting, even if I wouldn't use it, I think it is > nice to have an alternative to 'ls', maybe other people think similar > and want to give it a try? > > The most packages are really needed to develop applications and to > maintain packages, but OTOH Cygwin should respect the users who just > want to use it as their favourite system to drive the Windows > subsystem, so give them tools to use this system. Want to say, vote > if you don't think it is a really bad idea to have some alternative > directory lister (questions like: "who needs it when we have ls?" are > well known, but these answers are not a veto!). > > Gerrit I wanted to vote for this, but I wasn't sure just how useful this would be for people coming in from the Unix world and being familiar with "ls"... Then I had an idea -- if Yaakov could provide either a wrapper script or an example alias that would redirect "ls -l" to this application, it would make it much more useful, i.e., you install it and get an alias you can use in your shell (from /etc/profile.d/d.sh, for example -- just don't forget that it'll be invoked for ash as well, which doesn't understand aliases). I'll try to come up with something of this sort when I have the time. Once I do, this will have my vote (not just yet, sorry). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
