Re: By the way...

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Harold Hunt wrote:

> ... I added a link to your Cygwin Gnome page to Cygwin/XFree86's Ported
> Software page:
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html
> 
> I'm very impressed with your work to compile Gnome with DLLs.  Keep it up!


A couple of things:

1) pkgconfig.  I'm the cygwin pkgconfig maintainer, and I'd like to 
insure that you can use the "official" version in your port.  You are 
using a patched version of 0.8.0; cygwin distributes 0.10.0; but 0.12.0 
is now available.  Could you try 0.12.0 (unpatched and/or patched) and 
see if that works for you?

If you must use a patched version of 0.12.0, then I'd consider 
incorporating that patch into the official cygwin dist; also, in that 
case, we could submit your patch upstream for incorporation into the 
"real" 0.13.0...

2) libiconv/gettext: If someone 'adopts' my setup-compatible package for 
libiconv -- see thes3 messages:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg01558.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00467.html

and it is included in the official cygwin dist, then I would rebuild the 
official gettext package to use it.  (Yes, I'm also the cygwin gettext 
maintainer).

3) cygextras: why not submit these as patches to the cygwin DLL? If it 
is because the code is from gnu libc, then you could in partnership with 
someone else, reimplement them and submit the result: your partner would 
actually write the code to the specifications you develop; you would 
verify that the result operates the same as the current version. 
("Chinese Firewall").  Then, assign copyright on the reimplementations 
to Red Hat/Cygwin, and submit!

4) berkeley db: folks have been asking for this for a long time.  Would 
you consider packaging it up and submitting it as an official package? 
(Don't worry about the tcl thing; you needn't be able to run the test 
suite on an "official ports only" system).  side note: any idea why 
Gnome doesn't use the GNU database instead? gdbm?

5) libungif: just like libiconv, I have a setup-compatible package for 
this.  If someone wants to adopt it and submit it for official 
inclusion, contact me offline.

--Chuck