RE: Maintainer searched

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 May 2006 21:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:19PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: there is not enough time to maintain all my packages. Who wants to maintain one or more of my packages, maybe Yaakov wants to take over some of the GTK+ related packages? Then

Re: Maintainer searched

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:22:16AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 03 May 2006 21:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:19PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: there is not enough time to maintain all my packages. Who wants to maintain one or more of my packages, maybe Yaakov wants

[ITP] cygport

2006-05-04 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
I would like to propose my cygport package as a new package building/maintaining method, as well as a new package for the distribution. What is cygport? cygport is a new method of building packages. See README for my (lengthy) explanation of why I created this, but here's the concept behind it,

Re: [ITP] cygport

2006-05-04 Thread Jason Alonso
On 5/4/06, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: (Yes, the syntax is *inspired* by Gentoo Portage, but not identical, and the code behind it is mostly my own.) Wow... Once upon a time, I coughed up a proto-ITP, which met with few remarks. I have since advanced my documentation on the matter:

Re: [ITP] cygport

2006-05-04 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Alonso wrote: Might it be more advisable to make Portage do this job? Granted, most of the Portage tree isn't going to work for Cygwin, but there's no reason that Cygwin can't have it's own. Portage itself was already vetoed, as it would

Re: Maintainer searched

2006-05-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:19PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, there is not enough time to maintain all my packages. Who wants to maintain one or more of my packages, maybe Yaakov wants to take over some of the GTK+ related packages? Then there are some more major packages which

Re: [ITP] cygport

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: and was written with Cygwin in mind by someone (namely, me) with a repository of 1400 Cygwin binary packages. And that, right there, is why cygport should go into the distro. It's painful to manage 40-50 packages with g-b-s -- 1400 would be downright

Re: [ITP] mksh 2.6.3 -- MirBSD Korn shell, improved pdksh implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Jari Aalto
Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As the pdksh maintainer, I would like to veto having this package in the distro simultaneously with pdksh (since this is a newer version of pretty much the same package). In fact, I've been (slowly) working on preparing a new release of pdksh that

Re: [ITP] mksh 2.6.3 -- MirBSD Korn shell, improved pdksh implementation

2006-05-04 Thread Jari Aalto
Paul Watson pwatson-mQgUnnP8r7LqlBn2x/[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The mksh.exe cannot do some things in my .profile which are now being done by pdksh on Cygwin, ksh on AIX and Solaris, and ATT ksh on FC4. Can tou provide details, so that there bugs could possible be addressed. The man page