Hi Keith, * Keith MARSHALL wrote on Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:17:08AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13069136 which > > If I interpret that correctly, you are specifically asking for `join' > and `paste', from GNU coreutils; you would also like `fold' and `split', > but we provide then already, so I guess you are just suggesting that > they be mandated by GCS. Correct on all accounts. > Sure, we could consider distributing these, but don't hold your breath > waiting. I tried to build a Win32 native GNU coreutils with MinGW quite > recently, and the `make' failed miserably. Unless some kind soul provides > a mingwPORT, and/or feeds the necessary patches back into the coreutils > project, these are unlikely to be available any time soon. For now, > you could try the GnuWin32 port -- I don't know how effective that > might be. I don't think that would help for a GCS decision to mandate those tools: they should be readily available everywhere, otherwise they can't be considered necessary. Kind of a chicken-and-egg wrt. MSYS. :-) (By the way, I believe there are other systems we need to check for those tools, before actually proposing the GCS change.) But your statement still helps: I may just want to venture into porting those tools to MSYS when I have some time (sometime after 2.0 is done), unless beaten to, of course -- the prospect of maybe having them distributed when working is better than nothing. :-) > P.S. Please forward this to `libtool-patches' at your discretion; Done. > my previous post was bounced, awaiting moderator approval, I don't think it bounced, it merely needed first-time approval. I did that (and your post has shown up in the archives now); any further posts of yours should go through without approval. > and I have no desire to subscribe personally to that list. Fully understood. Sorry for the inconvenience -- spam has made this necessary. (For archive completeness only: it is also possible to subscribe and disable delivery, to forgo first-post moderation.) Cheers, Ralf
