From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [156.56.111.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1O9FADP008021 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:15:11 GMT Received: from tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca ([209.87.56.17]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D4F5S-0000M0-2Z for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:15:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 5285 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2005 01:15:08 -0800 Received: from s01060050da688d47.vc.shawcable.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (24.80.100.253) by tirpitz.iat.sfu.ca with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Feb 2005 01:15:08 -0800 Received: (qmail 20421 invoked by uid 10000); 24 Feb 2005 01:15:09 -0800 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:45 -0800 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: Gentoo Developers Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/Cygwin? Message-ID: <20050222171445.GA22112@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo Developers References: <20050221233040.4f0c56c7@snowdrop> <421A9294.4040504@gentoo.org> <1109075538.7123.37.camel@localhost> <1109090674.27829.82.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109090674.27829.82.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Archives-Salt: eac27c9e-2eb9-4df4-a67d-e9e35aebd262 X-Archives-Hash: 51f28e47c1f843f3cd00acaf09a41999 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:44:34AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > 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. >=20 > Great please keep it as an external overlay project. >=20 > Here is a list of things we can support properly. > If it's not listed here then we _Gentoo_ have no business trying to > support it. >=20 > supported BFD targets: [snip] # file q821982.exe # it's a microsoft patch I had lying around q821982.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows # objdump -f q821982.exe=20 q821982.exe: file format efi-app-ia32 architecture: i386, flags 0x0000010a: EXEC_P, HAS_DEBUG, D_PAGED efi-app-ia32 is on your BFD target list, so by logical inverse of your statement, we do have business trying to support it. However I will concur that until there is sufficent demand (and I agree thi= s is very hard to measure), getting Gentoo/Cygwin added to the tree probably won= 't happen. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=3Dpeople.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks iD8DBQFCG2iFPpIsIjIzwiwRAqQiAKC1DPPav1qlAFmIiywmylH5XMLNwACdEMjj +KRIVuhodYmmMXTpYJBXytw= =lC85 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list