Hello all, I've been around since the days of B18, but I've been a quiet one...
I have ported portage to Cygwin. There are still a lot of rough edges (and a lot of work to do on the ebuild front), but essential emerge/unmerge/ebuild/quickpkg functionality is operational. The system succeeds in building "patch", patching itself, and installing. To make that clear: portage builds patch, patches portage, and installs portage. Downloads, docs (*cough* [no really, I coughed]... a couple READMEs), overlays, and a setup.hint are available here: http://web.mit.edu/~jalonso/www/cygwin-portage/ I am a newbie at Cygwin package maintenance, so I thought it best to start a discussion before I get too far. I know for a *fact* that I have not filled in a lot of requirements for a complete package. In fact, I cheated and used quickpkg to build the tar.bz2, but I hope for that to be the norm one day... I am not in the best of health atm (a temporary matter--I told you I coughed), but I wanted to get this thing rolling where other people can start looking/working at it. As a consequence, most of my language is rushed, resulting in possibly politically dangerous elisions. Therefore, I must rely on others to fill in the gaps in my explanations until I can recuperate. In other words, I think there is more to be said, but Regards, Jason Alonso p.s. I have posted a similar message to the gentoo-cygwin mailing list (dormant) over at Gentoo, as I was advised to do by the original leader of that project. I have started a dialog with the sys-apps/portage maintainers to have my Cygwin-specific-ish patches incorporated.
