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> Who knows, maybe I'll pickup this project this Winter if I have time for |
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> a day or two. Usually I tend to spend time programming C though. |
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> Looking at the Gentoo Cygwin wiki, does look like the majority of the |
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> work is completed. :-) |
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*sigh* If only that were so... |
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I'm the one who wrote the bulk of the wiki article. |
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I cranked out a patch for Portage right before there was a major |
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version change (I use "major version" in a spiritual sense), and there |
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have been several major revisions since then. The trickiest part of |
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the whole mess is that Cygwin remaps paths prefixed with // to UNC |
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paths, resulting in long pauses followed by failures (while portage |
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expects // to be the same as /). I tried to be "good" about it in my |
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work and let portage use // when it *really* wants to (conceivably to |
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install to paths over Samba), but in hindsight, that was probably far |
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too optimistic a goal and pointless a purpose. There were also some |
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hard-coded blocks against uname's output that had to be |
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circumvented... |
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I've hypothesized, to myself, that prefixed portage may work for |
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Cygwin, but I haven't looked very carefully. |
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The Cygwin community has been very closed to the idea of admitting |
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Portage (I've tried), even in light of other package management |
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systems (like RPM) that they support. As an alternative, they have a |
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Portage-like build system (for building setup.ini packages) called |
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cygport, whose community of packages I've seen mentioned elsewhere in |
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this thread. |
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The Cygwin chapter of my life has spanned from 1998 to the present, |
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but it's drawing to a close. Before long, I expect to leave the |
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Windows world entirely. Best of luck to you, though I'll keep an eye |
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on this mailing list and offer what advice I can. |
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Regards, |
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Jason |
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> Roger |
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> http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html |
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> Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 |
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> Thu Dec 20 14:01:09 AKST 2007 |
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