Over the last few months, much progress has been made towards resolving the overlapping packages in Ports. Completely resolving these differences will allow for a much simpler installation procedure, which I think will be welcomed by all.
Here is a status report of the remaining overlaps: * a2ps Distro version is old, linked against libintl2, and does not run[1]. Currently orphaned. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00557.html * cmake Upstream still insists on defining WIN32 on Cygwin[2], which leads to incorrect builds for many packages. Upstream developer also controls the distro version, so this won't be resolved without convincing upstream to accept my patches[3], or forcing an ITA. [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-10/msg00101.html [3] http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10122 * guile Last pinged for update on 27 September; maintainer is inactive. * nano Pinged several times for update; maintainer has been inactive, but recently updated several of his other packages. * qt4 Ports version includes support for iODBC, MySQL, and FreeTDS, none of which are yet in the distro. I suppose I'll have to ITP these as well. * Tcl/Tk Distro version is 8.4 Win32/GDI, Ports is 8.5 *NIX/X11. Transition has been agreed to in principle, but no implementation plan in place. Affected distro packages are: expect, gdb, ocaml (labltk), python (tkinter), ruby, tcl3270, tcl-brlapi, tcl-db*, tcl-ming, WordNet. * xpdf Conflicts in part with poppler, which will require an ITP for openjpeg. Yaakov Cygwin Ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
