Repositories for Cygwin packages.

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/09/2015 22:40, David A Cobb wrote:
> I see the Git Repo for "the core Cygwin libraries and utilities (Cygwin
> and Newlib)" @ sourceware.com.
>
> I am looking at possible work within *COREUTILS*.  Obviously, there are
> significant deltas /versus/ GNU Upstream.
> Can you point me to the active repo for coreutils?

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html

>
> Just to save net traffic, I'll dare post a second related question in
> the same message:
> Is *NEWLIB* intended to be a "drop-in" replacement for *GNULIB*?

No.
https://sourceware.org/newlib/
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html

Roughly:
Newlib target is to provide a system libc.

Gnulib target is to provide a modular library implementation for 
software that aim on multi-platform builds.

Regards
Marco

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