Re: Chicken 5 on Cygwin
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:07 AM Peter Bex wrote: > > I think it's the Cygwin project. We are only responsible for ensuring > that it builds and runs correctly on Cygwin. But I'm sure they'll > accept a patch if one of us sends it to them. > > The real problem is keeping it up to date. Just updating it to 5.3.0 > should be a matter of sending a patch, but keeping it up to date, > following up when things break etc is something that really requires > someone who actively uses CHICKEN from Cygwin. > For the foreseeable future I'll once again be running Chicken on Cygwin and building it myself, so I will definitely report if it breaks. However, I think it's enough to send Cygwin updates only for minor versions (5.3, 5.4, etc.) and security patches, not for every single patch that's ever issued.
Re: Chicken 5 on Cygwin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 01:07:21PM -0500, Claude Marinier wrote: > Allô, > > I see that Cygwin includes Chicken 4. This is not a problem at home where I > can compile from sources. At work, I am working on approval for Cygwin as a > whole. It would be nice if Cygwin included Chicken 5. > > Who is responsible for this? Is it the Chicken community? I think it's the Cygwin project. We are only responsible for ensuring that it builds and runs correctly on Cygwin. But I'm sure they'll accept a patch if one of us sends it to them. The real problem is keeping it up to date. Just updating it to 5.3.0 should be a matter of sending a patch, but keeping it up to date, following up when things break etc is something that really requires someone who actively uses CHICKEN from Cygwin. > Assuming we have to do this ourselves. How difficult is it to upgrade? Shouldn't be too hard. Build instructions are almost identical for CHICKEN 4 and 5. Cheers, Peter signature.asc Description: PGP signature
