--- stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > > Dear fellow hackers, > > Hello! > > > I am working on putting my packages on sourceforge right now, > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19878 > > I still have not converted all of my packages to the high standards > > that I preach, this of course makes me a hypocrite in one aspect. > > The 'libiconv' library "port" for MinGW32 has always been maintained > at the 'mingwrep' project on sourceforge. > > <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7382> > > Too bad we are doing duplicate work... > Wait!
First of all I am talking about a mingw32 under debian, and second of all, please excuse that I overlooked your particular port, because there is no clear guidelines for the user as to which of the MANY ports he should use. I have been complaining about this all the time, I dont want to have to scrouge the net trying to find all the sources that I need to duplicate a port. That is why I have been complaining about the section 3 of the GPL. That states that all the sources and lib that are not part of the system have to put placed in the same place as the binaries. If people would follow the guidelines layed down by the FSF, then we would not have these problems. For example, the Dia installer does not have all the sources code of all the modules with it. The pw32 just has binaries, but the source code is missing. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pw32/ lets look for iconv : http://sourceforge.net/projects/libiconv/ -- This is from Haible http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libiconv -- Oh another one! http://gettext.sourceforge.net/ -- another port! http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep/ -- Your Package http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ -- The GNU Package http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ -- The One I used http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html -- Contains links to the gnu package, but not to yours. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettext/ -- And the gettext. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=libiconv/libiconv-1.8-2-src&grep=iconv CYGWIN also has a port! So we have a least six different distributions, before we go into the gettext. Now, how am I to know what to use? I will try your package under mingw32 under Debian. So I just grabbed one of them an started to compile, even If your might have been newer. Let me tell you that I am just trying to get all the sources in one spot for the DIA recompilation for windows under mingw32/debian. I also want to setup some build environment that is easy to reproduce the binaries from and setup a strictly GPL compliant distribution of the entire sources. In the end, I want to a set of debian source packages that can be compiled using apt-source/dpkg for windows without any tweaking. As I said, I will try out your package, the only reason I posted this unfinished package was so that someone else can try to compile it. I hope that we can consolidate all these versions floating around into a single and consistent set of packages, you must admit that It is very confusing!!! If the sources had been at the DIA site, then I would have used thiers, or at the GIMP/GTK port. You guys need to fight is out as to WHO is the REAL slim shady! Will the real "libiconv" please stand up? Please stand up! Then we need to have a link on each of these projects as to who is doing what. Believe me, I dont want to spend any more time than needed on this at all! Maybe a WEBRING would be best, at least you all have each others names, now please start talking, agree on a standard disclaimer about where to go to get the newest version, who is doing what. Best regards, Mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
