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From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn.mcbratney@×××××××.uk>
To: stuart@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:38:52
Message-Id: 200404142237.01469@i.emcb.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership by Stuart Herbert
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4 On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 21:33, Stuart Herbert wrote:
5 > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 23:00, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
6 > > OK, I have something.. the only problem I see is that the re2c.org
7 > > people won't be doing releases. They'll be working from CVS only.
8 > > Marcus Boerger asked this:
9 > >
10 > > ". . .It would also be nice if gentoo could go with RPMs we provide
11 > > from CVS now (see README.in file)."
12 >
13 > Heh - that Marcus from the php.net dev team? Figures ;-)
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15 Yep ;)
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17 > > I replied to Marcus saying that I'd ask (but that I was doubtful anout
18 > > using RPM's :)
19 >
20 > We can do that. Look at nxserver.eclass - that's one example that does
21 > this. There are probably better ones in the Portage tree ;-)
22 >
23 > > I'm working on a new ebuild that uses a cvs snapshot (to be downloaded
24 > > from a distfiles mirror) that would seem the most logical way to go..
25 > > the only problem with that is that a dev will have to update the snap
26 > > every couple of weeks/month. 8)
27 >
28 > We can do that instead. I guess it comes down to how often they plan on
29 > updating the RPMs - and whether there are any binary compatibility
30 > problems. CVS snapshots might just be the way to go.
31
32 Well at the moment, there aren't even RPM's to update ;) I think they'll be
33 working completely from CVS, so if you wanted an RPM it'd be a DIY job. :)
34
35 > Is there anything we can do to help you right now?
36
37 I'm just testing my ebuild, so if that works, it might be bug #43449 closing
38 time :)
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40 Elfyn
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