Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-10-21

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

Hallo Daniel,

Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 um 19:00 schriebst du:

> This is the list of pending packages as of Tuesday, October 21, 2003.

[...]

> Package: check 0.8.4-1
> Description: A unit test framework for C
>    Proposer: Gerrit P. Haase
>    Proposal: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00339.html
>              http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/check-0.8.4-1.tar.bz2
>              http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/check-0.8.4-1-src.tar.gz
>              http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/check/setup.hint
>     Reviews: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (2003-09/msg00345.html)
>   Aye votes: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (2003-09/msg00345.html) [1/3]
>      Status: Package available. Reviewed.
>    HOLD-UPS: Not enough votes (need 2 more).

Oh girls (and boys), I need it because `make check` for libexpat
depends on it, libexpat is used e.g. by XFree86 and gettext so give me
a chance.  I'm willing to maintain it, the review was 'ok', so what is
the problem here?  Why are you so picky with your voting?  Look at other
distributions packages list, e.g. for Suse you get the DVD with 6000
packages...


> Package: d 1.2.0-1
> Description: The Directory Lister
>    Proposer: Yaakov Selkowitz
>    Proposal: mailto:cygwin-apps-get.11472@cygwin.com
>              http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/d-1.2.0-1.tar.bz2
>              http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/d-1.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
>              http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yselkowitz/cygwin/d/setup.hint
>     Reviews: Gerrit P. Haase (cygwin-apps-get.11476)
>   Aye votes: Gerrit P. Haase (cygwin-apps-get.11476) [1/3]
>      Status: Package available. Reviewed.
>    HOLD-UPS: Not enough votes (need 2 more).

How much ITPs where seen without a real interest or ability from the
maintainer tobe?  This one is not one of these, I like this tool, that
was the reason I was voting, even if I wouldn't use it, I think it is
nice to have an alternative to 'ls', maybe other people think similar
and want to give it a try?

The most packages are really needed to develop applications and to
maintain packages, but OTOH Cygwin should respect the users who just
want to use it as their favourite system to drive the Windows
subsystem, so give them tools to use this system.  Want to say, vote
if you don't think it is a really bad idea to have some alternative
directory lister (questions like: "who needs it when we have ls?" are
well known, but these answers are not a veto!).


Gerrit
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