Warren Young writes: > Thanks, Achim. See my RFU message on the -apps list if you want to > try the packages in advance of them hitting the mirrors.
I tried them and they are OK. :-) > I changed your .cygport file considerably. Partly that's just style > issues, but it also has to do with my build procedure. It goes without saying that I have no objections. > You might be interested: the attached cygport-new script makes > creating a new version pretty easy: > > 1. Put my sqlite3.cygport file and src.patch in a work directory. > > 2. Run 'cygport-new 3.7.12.1'. It assumes -1 if you don't give a > package revision number. > > 3. If nothing changed incompatibly, you're done; upload and send RFU > message. Else, fix the problem and goto 2. Thanks for sharing this. > Then for each new release you want to package, you try starting with > step 2, passing the new version number. If that fails, you usually > have to go back to step 1 and edit the .cygport or .patch file. > > You're welcome to take these tools and maintainership of the > package. The only reason I maintain it is that its previous maintainer > went MIA and it was going to be dropped from the distro; I rescued it > purely because I knew what sqlite was and had some idea how to build > and test it. I don't actually use it on Cygwin like you do[*], so I'm > not well motivated to keep it up to date. I mainly react to bug > reports like yours. And as you see, not always promptly. :) I really appreciate what you're doing and I won't complain about any reponse times. > [*] I mainly use sqlite3 on other platforms, and then via other > software that happens to use it. Firefox, lots of stuff on OS X, > Adobe Flex and Lightroom... I'm in the same shoes currently, trying to get together a new Cygwin install at our company. Currently I can't take over anything, but I'm sitting on 225 CPAN distribution packages. If maybe I should end up maintaining some or all of them, adding sqlite3 to that stack would be possible. I'll keep it in mind... Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple