On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:06:36AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I'd like to package and maintain libargp for Cygwin. argp is a C interface >> for >> processing command line arguments. >> >> The libargp source files are taken from gnulib. gnulib is a well-known >> program >> available in major Linux distros (e.g. >> http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnulib), >> but I'm not aware of any distros that separately package just argp from it. >> So >> I'm not sure if libargp needs to be voted on or not for inclusion in Cygwin. >> >> Documentation: http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html >> Source home page: http://www.gnu.org/s/gnulib/MODULES.html >> License: LGPL > >Package maintainers, please consider voting in favor of libargp for Cygwin. > >I don't know of any rule that says I can't vote for my own package, so I'm >voting +1 for libargp. I want it specifically to use with nosleep [1]. I >could have just baked the argp source files statically into nosleep, but they >would have made up the bulk of the code, which seemed silly. It seems better >to make libargp available for shared use.
I think the fact that other releases contain an implementation of argp should be good enough to make its inclusion a foregone conclusion. I do hope that someday the package can go away and this functionality can be added to the Cygwin DLL though. So, all we need is a GTG on packaging. The same doesn't apply to the "nosleep" package, of course. cgf
