Re: [ITP] FUSE 2.8

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 22 02:43, Mark Geisert wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > Mark, did you find out how to move the repo under the Cygwin org
> > > > in the meantime?  Is it the "Import repository" functionality by
> > > > any chance?
> > > 
> > > Hi Corinna,
> > > Bill and I worked it out on a different thread of this conversation.  I
> > > currently have a public repo mgeisert/cygfuse on GitHub.  That seemed to be
> > > sufficient to me as maintainer.  Does it need to be moved under cygwin/ ?
> > > If yes, it looks like "Import Repository" is a way to do it.
> > 
> > It doesn't *need* to be but it would be neat and helpful to have
> > closley Cygwin-related projects in the Cygwin org.
> 
> I don't have any objection to that in principle.  It's hard for me to tell
> if this project qualifies that way, though.

No worries, it's your call.  We just provide the Cygwin org for all of
us to share.  It would be a pity if it goes mostly unused.

> Conceptually it's kind of like
> a VFS layer, but the core functionality is in Bill's separate Windows-native
> WinFSP dll.  The Cygwin end of things is just a bunch of wrappers around
> WinFSP calls all collected in a Cygwin dll.  (BTW, I don't see how
> transparency is supposed to work in a setup like this.)

I guess you'd need to discuss this with Bill.

> > > I was planning to make sure the package Bill supplied met all the
> > > requirements for a Cygwin package.  I figure it's real close but there was
> > > something I wasn't sure about and needed to research further, then real life
> > > intervened.  Something to do with where its cygport file was getting package
> > > source from.
> > 
> > Directly from git?  See, e.g., the cygwin package's cygport.
> 
> OK.  The cygfuse.cygport file is referring to Bill's separate GitHub space
> for source code.  Not sure it ought to do that.  Either my GitHub space (as
> I'm the Cygwin cygfuse maintainer) or Cygwin's GitHub space seems better.

In theory it doesn't matter, as long as the github space is open to
the public and the license is OSS compatible.

> I'm debugging some faulting test programs so this cygfuse code doesn't seem
> fully ready for prime time just yet.  I'm sure Bill had it working so it's
> likely to be some kind of local issue, so it's mine to solve.

Ok.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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