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On Aug 18 13:35, Matthew Hatch wrote: > On 08/18/2016 03:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 17 16:09, Matthew Hatch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've noticed that syslog-ng hasn't received much attention in cygwin > >> and is several years out of date (3.2.5). As such, it is missing some > >> features that are useful and pretty standard today in most syslog > >> daemons (ie: support for multi-line messages). Is there any chance of > >> getting an updated version (say, 3.7+) built and released? > > > > All versions after 3.2 don't work on Cygwin anymore because the > > syslog-ng developers introduced a module loader mechanism incompatible > > with Cygwin. > > > > Updating to a newer version requires considerable porting effort. > > > > If somebody has fun to take over syslog-ng maintainership and work > > with upstream on a modernised Cygwin port, please feel free. > > Thanks for the response! If recent versions of syslog-ng are no longer > suitable for Cygwin, would it make sense to dump it in favor of > rsyslogd, provided it doesn't also have similar issues with porting? > I'm no developer and wouldn't be the one to take up such a project, > but I'm just curious. I never looked into rsyslog sources so I can't tell, but probably it has similar issues requiring a major porting effort. Ideally some developer with a bit of spare time and interest in the issue would put some effort into porting the latest versions of either syslog-ng or rsyslog. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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