Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate the sucker until it's stuffed full of crap for people to use I kinda need dev-util/nsis, but moving mingw stuff to an overlay would be fine by me as long as the overlay is *official*.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: why do you feel the need to label crap as official ? Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Timothy Redaelli
Mike Frysinger wrote: having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler annoy me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, things that are useless to a linux host however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:59, Alin Năstac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: why do you feel the need to label crap as official ? Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. as i said, that's up to you and other devs to decide ... it's location doesnt matter; if you care add

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 00:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:12, Mike Doty wrote: I wasn't aware we had any. can you provide a list? there are bugs opened from time to time with people requesting more, but we have these now: dev-libs/wx-xmingw

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:59, Alin Năstac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: why do you feel the need to label crap as official ? Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs. as i said, that's up to you and other devs to decide ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 13:09, Alin Năstac wrote: What is your motivation ? people want to populate the tree with packages that have no value in a pure linux system ... they want to stick ebuilds in that produce only win32 binaries (like wx-mingw) i've also seen requests for ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: none of this belongs in the tree as we do not have a windows port But dev-util/nsis installs a native application - makensis - which creates win32 setups. I think this excludes nsis from your list. I find it useful because I can automatize updates of my win32 setups on

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 14:27, Alin Năstac wrote: But dev-util/nsis installs a native application - makensis - which creates win32 setups. I think this excludes nsis from your list. right, i would be OK with this living on ... last i checked, it didnt have a native linux port, but it

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler annoy me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, things that are useless to a linux host however, i think it's a lovely idea to open a mingw overlay and populate the sucker until it's stuffed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Doty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: having ebuilds in the tree that only work when you have a mingw compiler annoy me greatly as their only purpose is to produce windows binaries ... aka, things that are useless to a linux host however, i think it's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:12, Mike Doty wrote: I wasn't aware we had any. can you provide a list? there are bugs opened from time to time with people requesting more, but we have these now: dev-libs/wx-xmingw dev-libs/wxactivex if we want to punt the toolchain packages as well (but i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/20/06, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if we want to punt the toolchain packages as well (but i dont have a problem with these being in tree): dev-util/mingw-runtime dev-util/w32api -mike Hello, Please leave the toolchain so cross-compilation to win32 will be available as