On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:01 -0500, Patrick Dawson wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Does anyone have any information on what Gentoo/Cygwin is? Who is in > > charge of this, and is it really at the stage where we should be > > recruiting people to work on it? At the moment the project is in hibernation. Portage is a moving target, and some parts of cygwin are not really useful for Gentoo-style compilation (e.g. the linker dies after about 30 program installations)
> I'm *extremely* wary of the idea of > > this kind of thing being committed without prior discussion -- there's > > far more difference between anything we currently have and Cygwin than > > there is between osx or bsd and linux-gnu, and we know how much work > > those two are already... Well ... it was a thing I did because it scratched an itch I had. I don't mind if it won't be integrated into mainline Gentoo for a looong time ... > I think Patrick Lauer is the only one who's actually doing stuff with > Gentoo/Cygwin at the moment, so ask him. Judging by the extreme lack of > activity > on the gentoo-cygwin list, I don't think it's nearly at the stage where > recruitment should start. And there won't be any recruitment until there's some significant progress. Even the debian/win32 project has run dry. If people are really interested in getting Portage/Cygwin working and want to invest some time they can mail me offlist and I'll see how I can help them get a better experience with Portage on Cygwin. Patrick P.S. Small factoid: Starting portage on Win98 causes an immediate restart ...
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