I think cygwin-apps is more appropriate for what I wrote. > How does one check who the maintainer of a package is; e.g. > to make sure it is not oneself?
And how does one check who the maintainer of a package is ? I was looking for the Links one. I had to check the January 2002 cygwin-announce archives to find http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00357.html BTW, what's the status of this particular package ? Will it be removed, updated, or replaced by ELinks ? Anyway, I compiled 0.99pre8 and there were only 2 noticeable problems. 1- Accentuation doesn't work (at least the ouput) without the following change in os_dep.h (suggested a year ago by the ELinks maintainer): -#elif defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) +#elif defined(_WIN32) Then I had to comment void terminate_osdep () { kill (w32_input_pid, SIGINT) ; } in win32.c because it failed to link. I'm not a programmer, but that worked and also fixed another problem. Links froze / hung when started from rxvt. CC'ing the package maintainer if he's still alive. I already sent a report to the Links maintainer. irc is another package that needs to be updated (April 2001) or replaced, IMO by EPIC or irssi. I use the latter on Cygwin. Too bad I'm not a programmer, or I could volunteer to maintain them.