Repositories for Cygwin packages.

[David A Cobb]

On 2015-09-10 17:03, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> 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

Yeah, Marco.  Thanks.
Actually, the repo is <git://git.savannah.gnu.org/coreutils.git>.

Are you saying that is your direct upstream and your sources only differ 
by the patchfiles installed by Cygwin-Setup??


>>
>> 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
>
I  should have phrased the question differently, I guess.  My question 
is related to dependencies of the 'coreutils.' Cloning GNU Coreutils 
comes in with sub-module 'gnulib'.

Suppose I wanted to propose a patch to Coreutils, but being stuck on a 
Windows platform I use Coreutils only through Cygwin64 and MSYS2.
And, suppose for the moment, some of the changes are only relevant to 
the Windows platform.  I don't (yet) know how much GNU (i.e. RMS) really 
gives a flying bird about making Windows play nice.  So, to whom do I 
propose the changes?  I really, really don't want to create a private 
fork.  If I didn't think my ideas are worthy of pushing up the food 
chain, I should just go back to bed.

BTW, and totally irrelevant to the discussion, I'm not really a newbie 
here.  But for several years I had a working Ubuntu installation, so I 
didn't keep up with the list.  And now, I'm back on a borrowed Windows 
machine.  I just want to do some useful stuff on it.

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