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Re: newt-0.52.16 patches for Cygwin
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Michael Verrilli <msv at pobox dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:58:55 +0400
- Subject: Re: newt-0.52.16 patches for Cygwin
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Michael Verrilli!
> I have been wanting to write some python using the newt (snack)
> module, so I managed to get it to compile pretty cleanly with some
> minor patching. Is it appropriate for me to submit patches here for
> whoever else might have a need? Or should I try to contact the
> maintainer?
Depends on the nature of the patches, I say.
If the change is beneficial for a wide audience, it is quite apparent, that
the changes should go upstream.
> This is the tarball I started with:
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/e/newt/newt-0.52.16.tar.gz
> I have a patch for the snackmodule.c to allow runtime initializing (4
> lines of code). Then I needed a bootstrap module (I'm not sure why I
> needed it if it wasn't needed in linux, perhaps I just don't know how
> that works in other environments). Finally a patch to the Makefile.in
> to make it work with Cygwin and install the bootstrap python module.
> The only other thing to know is when running configure with all the
> standard Cygwin parameters, I needed to --disable-nls.
Mmm... how much implication this thing cause in reality?
Disabling NLS support doesn't sound too right for me.
> Oh, and it has a dependency on slang.
> If patches are appropriate here, let me know and I'll post what I have.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 13.02.2014, <02:56>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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