Re: setup.exe for 1.7 and patches?

2008-07-21 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: You start by discussing setup.exe development where you've already sent email - the cygwin-apps mailing list. My fault for not watching what Thunderbird was auto-completing for me. Fixed. As far as the compilation errors are concerned, weren't you going to try to

Re: setup.exe for 1.7 and patches?

2008-07-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Ralph Hempel wrote: What I'm trying to get clear on is whether I shoud be trying to get the setup for 1.7 (snapshot 2.592) working with the patches. No. All patches should be against mainline. Brian

Re: setup.exe for 1.7 and patches?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:15:47PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: As far as the compilation errors are concerned, weren't you going to try to get the patches working? It seems like you need to fix the compilation errors if you want to help. If you can't fix compilation

Re: setup.exe for 1.7 and patches?

2008-07-21 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: Based on Reini's note, I was under the impression that the three patches would apply cleanly to HEAD, and they don't. It's never possible to make a definitive statement that patches will apply cleanly to CVS HEAD. OK. Now that I've got the HEAD tag out and I've got

debian links? (was Re: scheme implementations for cygwin)

2008-07-21 Thread Nathan Thern
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link to a small repo of scheme implementation ports I had created. Reini responded with: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Reini Urban wrote: Great! Care to ITP them? I would review them. We would just need debian links. I'm getting ready to ITP chicken

Re: debian links? (was Re: scheme implementations for cygwin)

2008-07-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nathan Thern wrote: | I'm getting ready to ITP chicken scheme, but I would like to know what | exactly does he mean by debian links? URL on packages.debian.org showing that the package you ITP is in stable (etch). A package which is in debian

Re: debian links? (was Re: scheme implementations for cygwin)

2008-07-21 Thread Nathan Thern
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Thern wrote: URL on packages.debian.org showing that the package you ITP is in stable (etch). A package which is in debian stable is exempt from voting for its inclusion, and requires only a GTG review by

Re: debian links? (was Re: scheme implementations for cygwin)

2008-07-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nathan Thern wrote: | OK, the chicken version in etch is 2.3, and the version I want to ITP | is 3.3. Does that matter? Generally it hasn't, assuming that 2.3 and 3.3 are basically the same animal. :-) Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new | Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which | might be a result of the fairly massive changes in Cygwin 1.7. I | attached