I've found a willing (and presumably able) volunteer. James Hu has
stepped up to the plate.
To answer his question publicly:
On June 03, 2004 at 4:33 AM, James Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I volunteer. A question below:
In gmane.os.cygwin, you wrote:
A rudimentary build target is in place in the upstream sources to
handle building the Cygwin tarballs. It's not perfect, but it's
use is documented in the package's cygwin README. That readme is
also kept in the upstream sources, in a sub-folder named
packages/Win32/cygwin/.
What sorts of fixups are needed to get the Cygwin tarballs perfect?
By not perfect I really just meant it's not 100% automated.
E.g. there are better (more perfect) ways to handle building
Cygwin tarballs. But it's been working OK for me, so I
didn't bother switching to a different option.
As the upstream sources (the documentation files in particular)
evolve, my method of building cygwin tarballs will require
tweaking (in the form of changes to the Makefile). To get
changes posted into the upstream sources, simply send a patch
file to the curl-users mailing list (http://curl.haxx.se/mail/)
If you've installed the cygwin curl onto your PC, you'll find
the build instructions are spelled out step by step at:
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/curl-7.11.1-1.README
In particular, I've specified how to build both with and
without SSL libraries. I've also spelled out how to
build the customized source tarball.
Note that the only version I ever upload to Cygwin.com
is the one *with* SSL. However, I always build *both*
versions, and upload them both to curl.haxx.se
(see below for details).
Will you tell me how to upload the tarballs to Cygwin's package
distribution site?
The method I've used in the past is this:
1. Build the tarballs (both with and without SSL),
and upload them to http://curl.haxx.se/upload/
(write to Daniel Stenberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to request
access, I warned him you're coming).
There are a total of 4 (binary w/ SLL, binary w/o SSL,
developer-libs, and finally a customized source tarball).
You can see the filenames at: (scroll to Win32-cygwin)
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
2. Wait up to 5 minutes for Daniel's scripts to find the
new versions and publish them. (see the raw files at
http://curl.haxx.se/download/)
3. Write to the cygwin-apps mailing list, asking them
to upload the new version of curl, and providing them
with the URLs off of curl.haxx.se (see a sample msg:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00199.html
4. Wait until someone has handled that request (they'll
email you when completed.)
5. Announce the new version of cURL on cygwin-announce. See
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-03/msg00016.html
for a sample message.
Thanks,
- Kevin
p.s. This means Ricardo's offer of last resort is not needed
at this time. Thanks anyways!
-Original Message-
From: Ricardo Varela [phobeo] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: New maintainer for cURL?
hi Kevin,
I stated in a previous e-mail that I would maintain the JOE package
(haven't uploaded the definitive package yet because I've had some
extremely busy weeks, sorry). It's a package that updates quite rarely,
so
I guess I'll have time for maintaining cURL too...
If noone volunteers, tell me and I'll take it
Saludos,
Ricardo Varela
