ITP: Guile 1.5.6
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Thu Jul 4 16:55:00 GMT 2002
Robert Collins wrote:
> ** WARNING **
>
> If no one submits a patch for rpm compatability or dpkg compatability
> with setup, then what you get will be what I code.
>
> I happen to be a dpkg convert. So that will come along eventually.
> However, rpm does nothing for me, so ... It will need a contributor to
> add that. I'm happy to discuss timeframes, requirements, order of
> feature addition etc with a motivated contributor.
>
> ** END WARNING **.
I may be stealing Nicholas's thunder, but I believe he has already
mentioned this onlist. Nicholas is currently embarked on the rpm
"journey" -- he (and Gerritt) are providing and maintaining the berkeley
db packages (currently 2.7.7, but eventually also 3.x.x and 4.x.x).
Then, I imagine, he will be working on an *official*, *cygwin*, port of
rpm. (Previous cygwin ports have NOT been part of the official
setup-installable system).
That's the first step.
The next steps are:
A mingw port of the db library (static)
A mingw port of the rpm-libs (static). Testing this outside of the
path magic provided by [cygwin|setup.exe] will be a trick; rpm hardcodes
many things...perhaps this is the point that the oft-mentioned "cygwin
path handling (static) library" needs to become a reality...
The magic bits to hook setup.exe to (mingw, static) libdb and (mingw,
static) librpm.
But I believe all of the above are included in Nicholas's long term
goals -- so Robert, you've got at least one motivated volunteer who has
already put his money where his mouth is, with the berk-db packages...
--Chuck
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