Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I don't have commit access, but I will have the time in four weeks :) If you've been dutifully archiving the patches, I'll be happy to examine them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if people have in deed been waiting for you to patch the generic build script: AFAIKnew, it's your script, right?

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I've gotten my local Cygwin installation up to speed for this (openjade et al.) but I'll probably be working on my Gentoo box at home (seeing as I only have one Windows at my disposal at home, which does have Cygwin but which I hardly ever use, I'll do as much as possible on my normal development

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: I've gotten my local Cygwin installation up to speed for this (openjade et al.) but I'll probably be working on my Gentoo box at home (seeing as I only have one Windows at my disposal at home, which does have Cygwin but

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson writes: Believe it or not, the best thread is here, even tho it's old (never mind the subject line; we drifted offtopic without re-titling): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00104.html Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6 Note that I switched to mknetrel for my packages. Jan. --

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Note that there are a couple of patches to the generic build script floating around in the cygwin-apps archives. Also, it might pay to look at the sources of a bunch of Cygwin packages that use the generic build script, and compare/extract the good bits/parameterize the differences. I'm sure

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:13:03PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:39:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:39:03PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. I will be quitting

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Ronald, I'd be happy to help out with the documentation. As for the documentation build system: what do I need? openjde: point setup.exe to http://anfaenger.de/cygwin Then I use the Cygnus stylesheets, available from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/ (is this correct,

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
The most recent thread I've found on the subject dates back from 2001 and starts at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-03/msg00170.html. I'm reading the thread now (well.. during coffee breaks - I'm not off the job quite yet). If this is not the thread I should be looking at, please

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Believe it or not, the best thread is here, even tho it's old (never mind the subject line; we drifted offtopic without re-titling): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00104.html Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6 -- Chuck Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: The most recent thread I've found on the

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: I'd be happy to help out with the documentation. As for the documentation build system: what do I need? As far as the Cygwin distribution goes, you need to have all the normal build tools (gcc,make,etc) and a couple you

A month worth of developers time available for Cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. I will be quitting my job mid februari (the 13th) and moving to Canada where I won't start searching for a job until at least three weeks after our arrival (I'll be looking after my daughter in stead). As I don't expect taking care

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:39:03PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. I will be quitting my job mid februari (the 13th) and moving to Canada where I won't start searching for a job until at least three weeks after our arrival

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Otherwise, I can't think of a specific thing to point at and say Work on that. Maybe serial support? What about fixing the Cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes bug? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01807.html

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Otherwise, I can't think of a specific thing to point at and say Work on that. Maybe serial support? Perhaps Robert has some open issues in setup? (wishlist: rpm/dpkg support in setup -- this is a very difficult task; search ml archives for an outline of the

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:39:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:39:03PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. I will be quitting my job mid februari (the 13th) and moving to Canada where I won't