Re: Would patches for Windows be accepted? (No, please go away is OK)

2010-01-11 Thread Anders F Björklund
Tor Lillqvist wrote: Hello, I have been doing some initial small steps to make RPM work on Windows. (Well, a subset, just package management, definitely not the rpmbuild aspect for instance.) I have done this using the RPM 4.7 codebase. (Without bothering with any upstreaming attempts, as

Would patches for Windows be accepted? (No, please go away is OK)

2010-01-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Hello, I have been doing some initial small steps to make RPM work on Windows. (Well, a subset, just package management, definitely not the rpmbuild aspect for instance.) I have done this using the RPM 4.7 codebase. (Without bothering with any upstreaming attempts, as there isn't any real

Re: Would patches for Windows be accepted? (No, please go away is OK)

2010-01-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 10, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Would you eventually consider accepting such patches into the RPM5 codebase? Of course the intent is that the patches would be as nonintrusive as possible, with a minimal amount of ifdef cruft. Sure patches for mingw would be acceptable

Would patches for Windows be accepted? (No, please go away is OK)

2010-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: I have been doing some initial small steps to make RPM work on Windows. (Well, a subset, just package management, definitely not the rpmbuild aspect for instance.) there is a somehwat stale version in Cygwin as well, to which you may also want to