Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-09 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/17/2013 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? 4) Or, would you rathe

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-08 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi there! Am 17.03.2013 17:45, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes 3) Are you willing to download t

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-04-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Christopher Faylor writes: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? > 2) If no, would you be willing to ins

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/17/2013 10:45 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Not yet. > > 2) If no, would you be w

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:45:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? No. > 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? Yes, but I need to purchase it and schedule converting one of PCs from 32- to 64-bit Windows. > 3) Are you willing to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Bob Heckel
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes > 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? Yes > 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting > your stuff, knowing that there are still bu

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 15:16, Kai Tietz wrote: > 2013/3/20 Dave Korn schrieb: > > On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream > > GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 > > compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked again

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Kai Tietz
2013/3/20 Dave Korn schrieb: > On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream > GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 > compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked against in > the command-line? I will begin to

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 15:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 20 13:44, Dave Korn wrote: > > On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream > > GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 > > compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 13:44, Dave Korn wrote: > On a related issue, I don't see anything related to cygwin64 in upstream > GCC. How is 64-bit Cygwin currently being built? Are you using a mingw64 > compiler and controlling things like startup files and libs linked against in > the command-line? We have a

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/03/2013 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes. > 3) Are you willing to download t

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? > > 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? > > 3) Are you willing to download th

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:20:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > >Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. > >(This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure

RE: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
> From: cygwin-apps-ow...@cygwin.com > > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package > maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? No > 2) If no, would you be willing to install on

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Christian Franke
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to dow

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Warren Young
On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. (This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure whether the accusation was directed at me personally, or if I just

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/18/2013 10:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 17 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread JonY
On 3/18/2013 00:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? > Yes. > 2) If no, would you be willing t

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 12:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? > > 2) If no, would you be willing to install

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread waterlan
Christopher Faylor schreef op 2013-03-17 17:45: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes 3) Are you willing to download the current 64

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Cary R. wrote: > > From: NightStrike > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 1:36 PM > Subject: Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 17 March 2013 14:36, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I also lack a 64-bit Windows OS, but I believe you can download a time > limited trial of Windows8 in 64-bit? Looked in to a it a little further, and it turns out a trial is available: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx Unfor

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 17 March 2013 16:36, NightStrike wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested >>> software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:32:37PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> Have you considered the implications of having someone else do your >> packages? That means potentially different setup.hint, potentially >> different versions and version-numbering schemes, and possible >>

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Cygwin/X
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:43:52 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > My working assumption is that the differences between the two > architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so that a single > definition can be used to produce both packages. I also hope that it > will be possible in the future to cross

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-03-17 17:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1. yes, I have Win64 2. n/a 3. yes, I'm already done porting, I'm just waiting for optional depend

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread NightStrike
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested >> software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should >> we have some way of validating thi

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/17/2013 5:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3)

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 17 March 2013 13:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You certainly could but that would mean that you'd be releasing untested > software for 64-bit. Is that something that we want to endorse or should > we have some way of validating this. This brings up an interesting point, in that I don't have

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > Have you considered the implications of having someone else do your > packages? That means potentially different setup.hint, potentially > different versions and version-numbering schemes, and possible > source-level patches which you have not touched. My (maybe fault

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/03/13 17:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: If we could (this is just pie-in-the-sky speculating) drum up funding for a 64-bit version of Windows would you be willing to install it? I'm just in the throws of putting together a new PC right now - a big Fedora 18 / Win7 / WinXP multiboot. Sadly

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >> 1) Yes. >> 2) N/A >> 3) Yes (but not in the next two or three weeks). >> 4) No. >> 5) No. >> 6) Yes, as long as they don't pretend to be me. >> 7) Yes, if that helps to speed up things. > >My working assumption is that the differences

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:42:53PM +, David Stacey wrote: >On 17/03/13 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? >> >> 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? >> >> 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
> 1) Yes. > 2) N/A > 3) Yes (but not in the next two or three weeks). > 4) No. > 5) No. > 6) Yes, as long as they don't pretend to be me. > 7) Yes, if that helps to speed up things. My working assumption is that the differences between the two architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so tha

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/03/13 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? 4) Or, would you rather wa

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:54:13PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >(Do you want all responses to the list in this case?) Unless you have something you want to say which you'd rather not have archived on the list, yes. Otherwise, send me personal email to me at-sign cgf period cx. cgf

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/17/2013 12:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? Yes. 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? N/A 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your stuff, knowing that there are still bugs? Yes.

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/17/2013 9:45 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will > impact package maintainers. > > So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. > > 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? > > 2) If no, would you be willing to ins

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 17.03.2013 17:45, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? yes 3) Are you willing to download the current 64

Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cyg