On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:59 PM Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > On 02/09/2020 19:05, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > > > Hi Hamish, > > [cut] > > Is already in some Linux distribution ? > > Otherwise we need 5 votes from maintainers > > Hi Marco, > > Thanks for testing again :) > > Ah yes, I'm not sure how I managed to do that, they should be in the > cygport file. I'll sort that out tomorrow and notify this list again. > > It's not currently in the official repositories of a Linux distro no. > I'm essentially only packaging this for Cygwin because it's a dependency > for DDRescue-GUI, a GUI I wrote for GNU ddrescue. I currently release > for Linux and macOS, and there has been demand for Cygwin, hence me > getting involved with all of this in the beginning really. I would very > much appreciate it if I could get 5 votes, but if not I'll create some > kind of bundle instead. I understand that this is your project and you > may not all want my program in it :) > > NB: In programs that bundle cygwin.dll, are the /dev and /cygdrive > folders visible to access devices? I'm hoping the answer is yes because > otherwise my bundle idea probably won't work. > > Hamish
just to avoid misunderstandings, you have my vote, so you need only other 3 approvals as you count as 1 Regards Marco
