Dear All, I have been continuing my work and planning for the re-porting of GTK to windows via the dpkg system. http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
Currently we have %90 of the packages of GTK ported to windows and available on our package server. I am still fighting with gdk/gtk+ right now, but there has been alot of work done and it is ready for testing and helping. http://introspector.sourceforge.net/debian/incoming/ I hereby formally request support from the debian community in helping with this project. In particular, i would like to have : 1. A debian sponsor for myself personally. Based on the new development of the dpkg for cross compiling, you can see that I am trully interested in supporting debian. 2. A package repository pool to upload the packages to. Currently I am using dupload to my sf.net site. This uses about 100mb currently. I have not installed katjie yet, and to be honest it is a bit much to set up. 3. Changes to the dpkg port for cygwin that handles to permissions properly. Currently I cannot install the debs under cygwin because of permissions. 4. I would like to suggest that we use the GTK port for win32 to build a graphical installer based on GTK and the debian-installer. This would allow a windows user to select, download and install packages under windows. 5. Advice for the creation of of derived packages. Currently I have been morphing the standard packages to build via the cross compiler. What we need is to have the ability to compile in three different modes 1. Under cygwin using the autotools 2. Under GNU/Linux using the cross compiler testing with WINE 3. Under GNU/Linux for GNU linux I would like to be able to prepare my changes so that it is possible to build any one of them from the same set of debs. I have been prototyping that by having multiple deb directories each with thier own set of rules. 6. We are looking for developers the win32 mailling list is here : If anyone is interested in helping, please do. http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/introspector-mingw32 7. We need to build a package repository that is apt-gettable, as I said, currently we are using dupload. 8. The debian method of repacking sources is great, but there have been some negative comments from the GTK developers about having another distribution. This distribution based on dpkg offers a painless way to build cross compiled packages. I would like to hear from anyone who supports this, and would like to speak out. Is anyone interested in this work, and can anyone point out the right direction for me? thanks, mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
