Future of emacs maintainership

2009-05-14 Thread Steffen Sledz
Hi cygwinners, as you mentioned in the last months, i'd a lot of problems to fulfill my task as cygwin emacs maintainer. This has many reasons. There is this rsync/cygport problem mentioned sometimes before i have at my machine, but also a lack of time for the cygwin work coming from a really s

Re: Emacs maintainer

2009-04-16 Thread Steffen Sledz
Ken Brown schrieb: > I'd like some advice as to how to proceed. Sharing the job with Steffen > would seem to make the most sense, but I'm not sure exactly how that > would work since he can't run cygport. Hi Ken, thanx for your offer. I'm in a hurry currently but i'll contact you by email short

Re: Updated: [Test-version] xemacs-21.5.28-3/xemacs-tags-21.5.28-3/xemacs-emacs-common-21.5.28-3

2009-02-15 Thread Steffen Sledz
It might be clearer if 'xemacs-emacs-common' was renamed using the plural for emacs, that is, 'emacsen-common'. Good idea. But i can live with 'xemacs-emacs-common' too. Also, I'm not sure that the package should have the same version number ('21.5.28.3') as xemacs. That versioning suggests th

Re: FAQ entries about emacs

2009-02-12 Thread Steffen Sledz
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > can you do me a favor? Can you have a look into the FAQ entries "Is > there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?" and the next one "What about NT > Emacs?" and suggest a rewrite? The information given in these two FAQ > entries is certainly outdated, but I'm not quite sure how t

Re: cygport/rsync problem

2009-01-19 Thread Steffen Sledz
Ken Brown schrieb: > You received a reply on the main cygwin mailing list to your first > message about this problem: > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00524.html > > By the way, do you subscribe to that list? There was quite a bit of > emacs discussion in December. Sorry, i didn't

Re: cygport/rsync problem

2009-01-18 Thread Steffen Sledz
The problem is still existing: $ cygport emacs-22.3-1.cygport prep Preparing emacs-22.3-1 *** Info: SOURCE 1 signature follows: gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: Signature made Fri Sep 5 18:34:56 2008 WEST using DSA

Re: cygport/rsync problem

2008-10-29 Thread Steffen Sledz
Steffen Sledz wrote: > Now that gcc4 is available in release-2 i wanted to make a new try in > building emacs there, but i failed in the first step. :( > > $ cygport emacs-22.3-1.cygport prep >>>> Preparing emacs-22.3-1 > *** Info: SOURCE 1 signature follows: > gpg:

cygport/rsync problem

2008-10-26 Thread Steffen Sledz
Now that gcc4 is available in release-2 i wanted to make a new try in building emacs there, but i failed in the first step. :( $ cygport emacs-22.3-1.cygport prep Preparing emacs-22.3-1 *** Info: SOURCE 1 signature follows: gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.

Re: Maintainers: New Cygwin 1.7.0-27 in release-2

2008-08-15 Thread Steffen Sledz
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: Please test and please create new packages for 1.7 as far as necessary. Will release-2 come with gcc4? As you can remember i had big problems making a gcc3 built emacs for cygwin. Steffen

Re: Maintainers: New Cygwin 1.7.0-27 in release-2

2008-08-15 Thread Steffen Sledz
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > Please test and please create new packages for 1.7 as far as necessary. Is there a chance, that 1.7 comes with gcc4? As you can remember i had big problems to make a gcc3 built emacs for Cygwin. Steffen

Problem installing setup-1.7

2008-04-27 Thread Steffen Sledz
I tried to install setup-1.7 on a system running a "normal" release before. I've deleted the whole C:\cygwin dir from the disk and removed all cygwin/cygnus related items from the registry. But after running the new setup the mounts for /usr/bin and /usr/lib where missing. Also there is no /et

Re: Cygwin emacs

2008-03-11 Thread Steffen Sledz
Hi Corinna, yes, I'm still with you. :) And Mark ist right with his message. I'd some dirty problems with gcc 3 compiled Emacs 22.1. :( Mark Harig wrote: Resolve problems that are preventing a Cygwin gcc 4 -> Compile Emacs 22.1 with gcc 4 -> Test to determine whether the

Re: cygport and signatures

2007-07-31 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Sledz schrieb: > Eric Blake schrieb: >> If you set SIG in your environment (to anything, although 'export SIG=1' >> seems simplest), then cygport will automatically prompt for creation of, >> and distribute, .s

Re: cygport and signatures

2007-07-30 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > If you set SIG in your environment (to anything, although 'export SIG=1' > seems simplest), then cygport will automatically prompt for creation of, > and distribute, .sig files as part of the package phase... OK, I'll try that.

cygport and signatures

2007-07-29 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cygport README mentioned GPG .sig files for all the files used to build up a package. As I could see, the prep stage checks these. But they are not made part to the final source package in package stage. Is this intentionally or a bug? Steffen -BE

Re: Emacs is coming back - all pleased?

2007-07-22 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > Go ahead and send a release announcement, so hopefully you can get > some more testers willing to try the version while it is still > experimental. Is there a template for such announcements? Steffen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Emacs is coming back - all pleased?

2007-07-19 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Steffen Sledz wrote: > I hope all wishes - espacially from Eric - are fulfilled now. ;-) Oh, sorry. I forgot something. Eric, I'v not checked the problem with the space in the Windows user name. But I'll do t

Emacs is coming back - all pleased?

2007-07-19 Thread Steffen Sledz
n/emacs-leim/emacs-leim-22.1-3.tar.bz2> <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/emacs-leim/emacs-leim-22.1-3-src.tar.bz2> <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/emacs-leim/setup.hint> You can also install directly from: <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/setup.ini> Steffen Sledz -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Emacs is coming back - 2nd try

2007-07-17 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Eric Blake wrote: > > Another newbie question at this point: What's the right way to create > > the postinstall script? Currently there is one generated by cygport > > containing the install-info stuff. > > Simply create a file

Re: Emacs is coming back - 2nd try

2007-07-17 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > I'd still like to see a -3 that takes an alternatives-based approach. To > do that, you need to add a dependency on alternatives, then in your > postinstall script, do something like this (looking at > /etc/postinstall/automake1.

Re: Emacs is coming back - 2nd try

2007-07-17 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > I'd still like to see a -3 that takes an alternatives-based approach. To > do that, you need to add a dependency on alternatives, then in your > postinstall script, do something like this (looking at > /etc/postinstall/automake1.

Re: Emacs is coming back - 2nd try

2007-07-17 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > Also, your .cygport package does the following: > > # build non-X11 binary first > LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base'\ > cygconf --with-x=no > cygmake LD='$(CC)' > # save non-

Emacs is coming back - 2nd try

2007-07-16 Thread Steffen Sledz
cs-leim-22.1-2.tar.bz2> <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/emacs/emacs-leim/setup.hint> You can also install directly from: <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/setup.ini> Steffen Sledz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://eni

Re: Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-15 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake schrieb: > Why did the package grow from 8meg to 17meg? Not necessarily a problem, > if there is a good reason for it, but it seems a bit odd. The emacs.exe binary itself is about 15MB (stripped). ;-) > Why did the package shrink from 4.5

Re: Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-15 Thread Steffen Sledz
Eric Blake schrieb: > Currently, emacs and emacs-X11 both provide /usr/bin/emacs.exe. Which > means whichever package is installed last wins. I would much rather that > you used the 'alternatives' package, and instead of directly providing > /usr/bin/emacs.exe, instead provide two differently-nam

Re: Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-10 Thread Steffen Sledz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > xemacs-emacs-common:(used to conflict with emacs-21.2 now with > > > upcoming emacs-22.1) > > > /usr/bin/b2m.exe > > > /usr/bin/rcs-checkin > > > > No idea. > > That's one between Volker and

Re: Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-10 Thread Steffen Sledz
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > I splitted out the following conflicting files from my xemacs package: What's the right way to handle such conflicts? > > xemacs-tags:(conflicts with ctags-5.6 and now with upcoming > emacs-22.1) > usr/bin/ctags.exe > usr/bin/etags.e

Re: Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-09 Thread Steffen Sledz
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Eric Blake wrote: > I will be trying them out this week. Thx > But first, a suggestion. > Currently, emacs and emacs-X11 both provide /usr/bin/emacs.exe. Which > means whichever package is installed last wins If I made it right they don't. Package emacs provides /usr/b

Emacs is coming back - please test

2007-07-08 Thread Steffen Sledz
is obsolete as an own package. This is an empty package moving emacs-leim to _obsolete: <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/emacs/emacs-leim/emacs-leim-22.1-1.tar.bz2> <http://www.zone42.org/cygwin/emacs/emacs-leim/setup.hint> You can also install directly from: <http://www.zone42.org/

Re: Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-08 Thread Steffen Sledz
Brian Dessent schrieb: >> 3. Same question for the build requirements. > > There's no automatic way to determine this, you just have to know which > developer tools are required to build the software. For the most part it's > pretty straightforward, e.g. it requires the 'make' package if a step w

Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-03 Thread Steffen Sledz
My work at the new emacs packages makes good progress. The cygport stuff is really comfortable. I hope, that I can present a new version in the next days for testing. But also after reading all the documentation there are some last questions (if I've overlooked something please forgive me): 1. Wh

small bug in tcsh 6.15.00-4

2007-06-16 Thread Steffen Sledz
uot; | tr -s " " " " | cut -f 1`) I'm not familiar with cygwin development. What's the right way to report such patches? How can i find and contact the maintainer of this package? Regards, Steffen Sledz