(With apologies... :)
I have a quandry.
In the process of updating some packages I maintain for Cygwin (zsh & suite3270), I've found that I now require some other software to build them. One is 'ICU' (International Components for Unicode) and the other is 'yodl' (Yet oneOther Document Language). I need yodl to generate the doc for the developer snapshots of zsh (which I'm trying to create any automated process for), and I need ICU for DBCS support in suite3270.
I've already build both of the above packages (in fact, I've gone the next step and created Cygwin packages for them :). I just don't know weither there is any interest in these being offered as Cygwin packages.
So, my quandry is: Should I offer them? Is there any interest from other Cygwin users? It's not a question of maintaining them, really. Since I now require them for other packages I maintain, I have to keep my private copies up to date anyways. And, since I've already gone through the exercise of creating packages, there's not much left to do.
You can check them out at http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin
Yodl: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yodl/
ICU: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/
There are two wrinkles:
1) There's some confusion in my mind about yodl's viability. I've seen notices on the web about it being discontinued, yet the sourceforge project was last updated in Jan of 2005. I've build v1.31.18 so far. I haven't gotten around to build v2.01.01 yet (it requirs 'icmake'!). I guess I'll have to look into building icmake next :|
2) ICU is an IBM product (at 9Mb, compress, for the source, it's hugh!). Normally that's got both good and bad connotations. This particular release of ICU (3.2) is strange in that I can't seem to get the canned sample demos to work correctly under Cygwin. They run, but don't generate the desired output. That normally would bother me, except, a build of the same version under Linux also has the sample demos failing in the same way. Well, at least it's consistent :) But, it begs the question: does this code actually work at all? I'd presume IBM thinks so, otherwise why would they release it? So, even though I've managed to build and package it, it could be complete junk.
*sigh* It's never easy, is it? Please send me your thoughts on this.
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