From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.inet.fi (smtp.inet.fi [192.89.123.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1M9Dxng028712 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:13:59 GMT Received: from joukahainen.sodankyla.fi (unknown [194.251.82.62]) by smtp.inet.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id F39CA141B4 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:13:57 +0200 (EET) Received: from fork.eigenor.com ([194.252.160.194]) by joukahainen.sodankyla.fi; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:11:23 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <421AF7CD.6060001@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:13:49 +0200 From: tchiwam User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/Cygwin? References: <20050221233040.4f0c56c7@snowdrop> <421A9294.4040504@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <421A9294.4040504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: be4c0a36-7160-48d4-b6ff-4791d6bad545 X-Archives-Hash: 5a4b0ff16e0f67891a5b9d2a7a3df303 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? 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... > > > 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. I would think this port would potentially open the biggest market to gentoo, and the scariest one too... In order I would say: -Learn about OSX and "system provided services" -Take a look at the BSD and OSX to see if there is QC things that would be usefull to bring over. Unless there is a team really needed it, I would wait until the 2 point have stabilised and feel comfortable. Tchiwam -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list