Re: [gentoo-cygwin] Hello!

[Eddie Parker]

roger wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:30 -0800, Eddie Parker wrote:
>
>
>> Anyhow, is there anyone listening/reading this mailing list anymore?
>> What's the status of this project, if so?
>>
>
> I'm listening, but there hasn't been much activity as far as I know.
>
> I think most would rather spend time programming a native linux program.
>
> 4 or 5 years ago, I used to spend time debugging programs for porting to
> cygwin or windows, but I have advanced to other things now.
>
>
I can't say I blame you.  I've been following the instructions on the 
wiki [1], and while I've got it working, it seems that most packages 
require tweaking to get to work...  I can imagine the debugging would be 
intensive to, when things don't work. :(

That said, if there are people who are interested in this sort of stuff, 
it might be nice to see what the status of the previous project 
was(/is?).  Top of my mind are questions such as:

1.- Does anyone know if the Gentoo community is/was willing to have the 
'Cygwin' arch as a 'supported' arch within portage?  [2]
2.- Did any of the previous maintainers/visionaries for this project 
have any thoughts about replacing in-use files such as Python?  Be-it 
through windows' typical "reboot" methodology or some such?
3.- At the very least, was it/would it be possible to have a script that 
create a portage overlay from Cygwin's setup.ini, so you can get binary 
packages installed with emerge as a start?

I'm not naive enough to think I'm the only one to've thought of these 
things, so I'm actually just curious if there were technical limitations 
to any/all of these that I'm not aware of.  Just trying to get a read of 
how this project went!

Cheers,

-e-

[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_on_Cygwin
[2] I'm not sure if I'm using the right terminology, basically to have 
it be an ACCEPTED_KEYWORD, and having ebuilds as part of portage that 
support it?