On Sun, 2 May 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --- "Ricardo Varela [phobeo]" wrote: > > hallo, > > > > I wrote to cygwin list to comment out that I had just ported joe editor > > 3.0 version to cygwin, and I thought it would be a good idea to include > > it in the distro, as its many people's editor of choice. > > > > Gerrit Haase pointed me to the package contributor's guide, and there > > I've read its convenient to announce this kind of thing in this list, so > > there it goes: > > > > I have no problems in maintaining joe's package for cygwin. I've read > > the guide and I'm preparing the neccesary changes to the sources in > > order to have joe packages ready in the appropiate packaging format. > > > > Here's a draft of the setup.hint file for public comments: > > > > --- begin setup.hint -- > > > > # setup file for Cygwin's version of JOE > > # maintained by Ricardo Varela - phobeo at ieee dot org > > sdesc: "Joe's Own Editor - the world-famous Wordstar-like text editor" > > ldesc: "Joe's Own Editor id a Wordstar-like console-based user-friendly > > WYSIWYG ASCII-text editor. It is a common alternative in the UNIX world > > to editors such as vi and Emacs. It includes syntax highlightning for > > various programming languages. > > You can visit JOE's project page at: > > http://http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor" > > category: Editors > > requires: cygwin terminfo libncurses libiconv > > > > -- end setup.hint -- > > > > Please contact me if you think it's OK to include this package in Cygwin > > and/or if any changes are needed > > Ricardo, > > Can you also post links to the prospective packages? We need to verfiy that > they follow packaging standards and work on a variety of systems, not just > the one one which they were compiled.
Also, joe has been ITP'd before, so you'd probably do well to look up those threads (on cygwin-apps) to see what the potential problem with the vanilla codebase may be. Not all will apply, but it might save you some pain later. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton