Re: [gentoo-alt] Future of x64-cygwin, x86-winnt?

[Fabian Groffen]

Hi Martin,

On 19-01-2021 07:58:00 +0100, Martin Oberzalek wrote:
> > > gentoo prefix stack with
> > > this upcomming new cygwin release (when its released) and give some feedback. If
> > > I can get it working I would update
> > >
> > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin[1]
> >
> > I'm trying to understand what this means.  I'm sure/certain the current
> > tree doesn't work for Cygwin.  This means I anticipate you'll have to
> > patch/fix a lot of packages for it.  Would it be more useful to use an
> > overlay for Cygwin instead?
>
> I agree, maybe this would be a good solution.

I'm looking for who would maintain Cygwin/Windows, and how.

Currently there is a lot of remnants of Cygwin, but also decay.  Python
for instance got its Cygwin patches dropped (they didn't apply, and we
had to move on for security and other reasons), hence I know for sure
that Cygwin support is virtually non-existant in the current tree.

I don't want to destroy the work of others, but at the current state, I
cannot maintain Cygwin or Windows (nor do I have incentive to do so).
With haubi retiring from the project, there's officially no Gentoo
developers working on this.

If a separate overlay or fork is the way to go, we can see if we can get
such repo on Gentoo hardware and set it up, turn Cygwin into a proper
sub-project or something, and move anything necessary there as not to
hold back the Prefix migration of whatever's left back into the main
gentoo repository.

Thanks,
Fabian


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level