Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-09 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/17/2013 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? 4) Or, would you

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-08 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi there! Am 17.03.2013 17:45, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes 3) Are you willing to download

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christopher Faylor writes: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one?

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 13:44, Dave Korn wrote: On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked against in the command-line? We have a

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 15:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 13:44, Dave Korn wrote: On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Kai Tietz
2013/3/20 Dave Korn schrieb: On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked against in the command-line? I will begin to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 15:16, Kai Tietz wrote: 2013/3/20 Dave Korn schrieb: On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked against

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Bob Heckel
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? Yes 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:45:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? No. 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? Yes, but I need to purchase it and schedule converting one of PCs from 32- to 64-bit Windows. 3) Are you willing to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread waterlan
Christopher Faylor schreef op 2013-03-17 17:45: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes 3) Are you willing to download the current

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one?

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread JonY
On 3/18/2013 00:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes. 2) If no, would you be willing to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/18/2013 10:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 17 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Warren Young
On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. (This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure whether the accusation was directed at me personally, or if I

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Christian Franke
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to

RE: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
From: cygwin-apps-ow...@cygwin.com I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? No 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? Not

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:20:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. (This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure

Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 17.03.2013 17:45, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? yes 3) Are you willing to download the current

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/17/2013 9:45 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/17/2013 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes. 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? N/A 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? Yes.

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:54:13PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: (Do you want all responses to the list in this case?) Unless you have something you want to say which you'd rather not have archived on the list, yes. Otherwise, send me personal email to me at-sign cgf period cx. cgf

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/03/13 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? 4) Or, would you rather

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
1) Yes. 2) N/A 3) Yes (but not in the next two or three weeks). 4) No. 5) No. 6) Yes, as long as they don't pretend to be me. 7) Yes, if that helps to speed up things. My working assumption is that the differences between the two architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so that a

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:42:53PM +, David Stacey wrote: On 17/03/13 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: 1) Yes. 2) N/A 3) Yes (but not in the next two or three weeks). 4) No. 5) No. 6) Yes, as long as they don't pretend to be me. 7) Yes, if that helps to speed up things. My working assumption is that the differences between the two

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should we have some way of validating this. This brings up an interesting point, in that I don't have

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/17/2013 5:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3)

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should we have some way of

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-03-17 17:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1. yes, I have Win64 2. n/a 3. yes, I'm already done porting, I'm just waiting for optional

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Cygwin/X
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:43:52 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: My working assumption is that the differences between the two architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so that a single definition can be used to produce both packages. I also hope that it will be possible in the future to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Cary R. wrote: From: NightStrike Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher