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Re: Returning modified code to the Cygwin Community
- To: "Robert O. Morris" <Robert.O.Morris@jpl.nasa.gov>
- Subject: Re: Returning modified code to the Cygwin Community
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer@cygnus.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:17:57 -0700
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, Distributed Oceanographic Data Server <dods-tech@unidata.ucar.edu>
- References: <000001bed94f$1c23bae0$311f4e89@jpl.nasa.gov>
My suggestion would be to contact the authors of those original
projects. I have talked with the folks at capgemini.fr about
including the ipc libraries in the base distribution but since the
work includes modified Linux kernel sources and we need a copyright
assignment, it's not likely to happen soon. It would still be good
for that library to get the benefit of your cleanup work since a good
number of people use that stuff.
I would still like to see IPC support added to Cygwin but it will need
to be either a fresh implementation or one based on less restrictive
licensing terms. Maybe this will happen some day but I don't think
we've heard from any volunteers yet. :-)
And please contact Corinna for the RPC changes.
Best regards,
Geoffrey Noer Email: noer@cygnus.com
Cygnus Solutions
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999, Robert O. Morris wrote:
>
> I recently ported a rather large project to Cygwin and I
> had to modify a couple of Cygwin-related projects to get
> things to work for me.
>
> I thought that if I sent email to the group, this would
> start the process of getting some of this back into Cygwin -
> and make our lives easier here (JPL and the DODS Group) and
> elsewhere in the long run by having this (possibly) incorporated
> back into the original distributions for this stuff.
>
> . . . in the spirit of the open source movement . . . sharing . . .
>
> These include the following for Cygwin 20.1B:
>
> 1) RPC Library for Cygwin 20.1B, starting with Corinna's stuff mentioned
> on the Cygwin Home Page.
>
> binaries: http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/rpclib.bin.tar.gz
> source : http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/rpc-4.0.src.tar.gz
>
> Description: Rather extensive modification (mostly) to allow them to
> to compile and link from either C or C++. Things needed
> reorganized quite a bit. I'm not sure how much of this
> got exercised in our port project - but whatever did,
> works.
>
> 2) Hdf4.1r2 for Cygwin 20.1B
>
> binaries: http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/hdf.bin.tar.gz
> Source : http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/hdf.src.tar.gz
>
> I simply got the source code and applied a patch from a guy at Goddard
> that (at some point) had made it for B19. I can't remember making any
> other mods to this except general clean-up. It was originally from
> ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/ncsa/.
>
> 3) IPC Library and tools for Cygwin 20.1B.
>
> http://dods.jpl.nasa.gov/WinPort/binaries/cygwinB20IPC.tar.gz. This
> originally came from http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/
> and (if memory serves) mods were just general clean-up.
>
> I'd like to see some of this moved out of dods.jpl.nasa.gov and put under
> control elsewhere if possible.
>
> Someone in the know . . . . please advise.
>
> Rob Morris
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
>
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