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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:01 -0500, Patrick Dawson wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > Does anyone have any information on what Gentoo/Cygwin is? Who is in |
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> > charge of this, and is it really at the stage where we should be |
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> > recruiting people to work on it? |
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At the moment the project is in hibernation. |
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Portage is a moving target, and some parts of cygwin are not really |
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useful for Gentoo-style compilation |
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(e.g. the linker dies after about 30 program installations) |
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> I'm *extremely* wary of the idea of |
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> > this kind of thing being committed without prior discussion -- there's |
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> > far more difference between anything we currently have and Cygwin than |
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> > there is between osx or bsd and linux-gnu, and we know how much work |
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> > those two are already... |
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Well ... it was a thing I did because it scratched an itch I had. |
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I don't mind if it won't be integrated into mainline Gentoo for a looong |
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time ... |
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> I think Patrick Lauer is the only one who's actually doing stuff with |
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> Gentoo/Cygwin at the moment, so ask him. Judging by the extreme lack of activity |
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> on the gentoo-cygwin list, I don't think it's nearly at the stage where |
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> recruitment should start. |
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And there won't be any recruitment until there's some significant |
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progress. Even the debian/win32 project has run dry. |
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If people are really interested in getting Portage/Cygwin working and |
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want to invest some time they can mail me offlist and I'll see how I can |
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help them get a better experience with Portage on Cygwin. |
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Patrick |
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P.S. Small factoid: Starting portage on Win98 causes an immediate |
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restart ... |
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