Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/Cygwin?

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 21:01 -0500, Patrick Dawson wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Does anyone have any information on what Gentoo/Cygwin is? Who is in
> > charge of this, and is it really at the stage where we should be
> > recruiting people to work on it? 
At the moment the project is in hibernation.
Portage is a moving target, and some parts of cygwin are not really
useful for Gentoo-style compilation
(e.g. the linker dies after about 30 program installations)

> I'm *extremely* wary of the idea of
> > this kind of thing being committed without prior discussion -- there's
> > far more difference between anything we currently have and Cygwin than
> > there is between osx or bsd and linux-gnu, and we know how much work
> > those two are already...
Well ... it was a thing I did because it scratched an itch I had.
I don't mind if it won't be integrated into mainline Gentoo for a looong
time ...

> I think Patrick Lauer is the only one who's actually doing stuff with 
> Gentoo/Cygwin at the moment, so ask him. Judging by the extreme lack of activity 
> on the gentoo-cygwin list, I don't think it's nearly at the stage where 
> recruitment should start.
And there won't be any recruitment until there's some significant
progress. Even the debian/win32 project has run dry.
If people are really interested in getting Portage/Cygwin working and
want to invest some time they can mail me offlist and I'll see how I can
help them get a better experience with Portage on Cygwin.

Patrick

P.S. Small factoid: Starting portage on Win98 causes an immediate
restart ...

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