libunistring?
Erwin Waterlander
waterlan@xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 6 19:53:00 GMT 2011
Charles Wilson schreef, Op 29-9-2011 20:10:
>
>
> FWIW, the -src package uses cygport and provides a minimal src patch
> (disables using the .rc file and adding properties to the dll), along
> with a cygwin patch providing a readme and setup.hint. (hint lists
> cygwin as a require: but this is no longer recommended practice).
>
>
> We can't just grab some cygwin package off a website and stick it in the
> distribution. We need an actual maintainer, who is a member of this
> community (at least, subscribed to the cygwin mailing list), who commits
> to supporting the package, and to ITP it on cygwin-apps. Then there's
> the whole GTG evaluation and voting process (or documentation that the
> package is provide by (at least one) major linux distro).
>
> It's fine with me if that volunteer wants to /start/ with a 3rd party
> cygport script and patchset, but the volunteer needs to "take ownership"
> of it going forward.
>
> --
>
I started packaging libunistring from scratch. I didn't look at the
other package. Expect an ITP message on cygwin-apps soon.
best regards,
--
Erwin Waterlander
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