[RFC] cygport: cross-compiling to embedded systems

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Previous discussions (and my examples) on cross-compiling were focused on other operating systems: MinGW, Linux, and Solaris. But there is another use of cross-compiling: bare metal embedded systems. Yesterday I built my first example of such: the AVR toolchain, a sample build of which is now

bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? One problem that I see immediately is that if we publicly adopt a bug tracker EVERY maintainer will have to use it. We can't expect a normal user to understand that they send email to the mailing list for

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands?  How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+ Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer, the package maintainer and the user. And I believe it will

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) We're still going to have to monitor the mailing list, so this just adds burden AFAICT. Does

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+ Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer,

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) We're still going to have to

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:24:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:01 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? Depends on how we use it. Don't get me wrong -- I like working with Bugzilla, and we do use it *internally* for Cygwin/X, but the list is

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:51 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: OTOH, I do sometimes miss things on the main list due to the signal-to-noise ratio, which I imaging would be even greater for a maintainer with only a small number of packages. So using Bugzilla internally would be helpful. IOW: