Re: Gnome versioning issues [was Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1]

2004-06-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicholas Wourms wrote: | I completely agree! Both Debian and RedHat use some form of versioning | to distinguish between the major releases. This is a prudent model | since both libs are still being used. That's what I thought. We should leave room a

Re: Gnome versioning issues [was Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1]

2004-06-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: glib-1.x -> glib- glib-2.x -> glib2- Likewise, for gtk+: gtk+-1.x -> gtk+- gtk+-2.x -> gtk+2- Agree. I'd like to suggest that the names of library-only packages, like glib/gtk+, be prepended with a "lib", so that they show up in that portion of the full list and minimize

Re: Requesting vote / review for submitted package

2004-06-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:26:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how this voting and package acceptance process would be working. I had proposed my Unicode and CJK capable text editor with message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00202.html an

Gnome versioning issues [was Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1]

2004-06-10 Thread Nicholas Wourms
yselkowitz wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib_devel-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2 ~ ^ | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib_doc-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2 ~ ^ Shouldn't these be glib-devel and gl

Re: Requesting vote / review for submitted package

2004-06-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:26:05PM +0200, Thomas.Wolff wrote: > >I was wondering how this voting and package acceptance process would be > >working. I had proposed my Unicode and CJK capable text editor with > >message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-a

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 10 10:15, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > | While it's not overly difficult to get votes, it's fairly difficult to get > | a review. So the idea is to ease getting new packages into the Cygwin > | distro for well known good packagers. > > If I may say so, as a package m

Re: [ITP] (esound, libesound0, libesound-devel)-0.2.34-1

2004-06-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
+1 from me. Harold

Re: [ITP] (audiofile, libaudiofile0, libaudiofile-devel)-0.2.6-1

2004-06-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
+1 from me. Harold

Re: Requesting vote / review for submitted package

2004-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:26:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was wondering how this voting and package acceptance process would be >working. I had proposed my Unicode and CJK capable text editor with >message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00202.html and >there was 1 vote pro

Re: Packaging howto. Was: Re: A new policy.

2004-06-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Although I'm not a maintainer yet, I would certainly have wanted to | try a successful installation before submitting my package. | I packed it to my best understanding of the package making howto, | then placed it into my loc

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 10 15:06, Reini Urban wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > >Since my subject refers to Gerrit as the *first* victim: We would like > >to give other contributors the same rights, but we also still need > >reviewing of other packages. So we would like to introduce this small > >deal: If you

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll admit that the headline got me worried for a minute. If you were trying to get everyone's attention, I think you did a pretty good job. :-) Corinna Vinschen wrote: | we've been trying this 3 votes plus review game for a long time now and some | pe

Packaging howto. Was: Re: A new policy.

2004-06-10 Thread Thomas . Wolff
Hello, > - you include a statement in your ITP along the lines of "I've > successfully tried to install and use my own binary package and I > did run through the complete build process of my own source archive > from scratch and it worked fine." Although I'm not a maintainer yet, I would c

Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | I want to contribute/maintain glib. | Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ I'm sorry I'm nit-picking on this one, but I think this is one package which is VERY important to get right, being that it's the foundation of getting

Re: [ITP] freeglut-2.2.0-1

2004-06-10 Thread Andre Bleau
Comments inserted below. Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, I want to contribute/maintain freeglut. http://freeglut.sf.net/ Freeglut is the OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library, this version is compiled as drop-in replacement (includes GL/glut.h a

RE: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi folks, > > we've been trying this 3 votes plus review game for a long time now > and some people have been packaging a bunch of packages for a while > without any real problems. Gerrit is one of the people who's pretty > active in adding new packages and his packages

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: Since my subject refers to Gerrit as the *first* victim: We would like to give other contributors the same rights, but we also still need reviewing of other packages. So we would like to introduce this small deal: If you are maintaining at least three packages in the dis

[HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, we've been trying this 3 votes plus review game for a long time now and some people have been packaging a bunch of packages for a while without any real problems. Gerrit is one of the people who's pretty active in adding new packages and his packages are known to be packed mostly correc

Requesting vote / review for submitted package

2004-06-10 Thread Thomas . Wolff
Hello, I was wondering how this voting and package acceptance process would be working. I had proposed my Unicode and CJK capable text editor with message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00202.html and there was 1 vote pro since then. I would appreciate further voting and/or reviewi

Re: [Cygnome2-devel] Re: My pending ITPs / votes & reviews wanted

2004-06-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Hansom Young wrote: As to the prefix (/opt/gnome2 or standard /), headache If it's not /opt/gnome2, we have to rebuild most packages when we have glib2/gtk2 from Cygwin net release. What's the others' opinion? BTW, did you think about how you're going to set this up? While non-glib/gtk dep