Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Robert Collins wrote:

> ** WARNING **
>
> If no one submits a patch for rpm compatability or dpkg compatability
> with setup, then what you get will be what I code.
>
> I happen to be a dpkg convert. So that will come along eventually.
> However, rpm does nothing for me, so ... It will need a contributor to
> add that. I'm happy to discuss timeframes, requirements, order of
> feature addition etc with a motivated contributor.
>
> ** END WARNING **.

I may be stealing Nicholas's thunder, but I believe he has already 
mentioned this onlist.  Nicholas is currently embarked on the rpm 
"journey" -- he (and Gerritt) are providing and maintaining the berkeley 
db packages (currently 2.7.7, but eventually also 3.x.x and 4.x.x). 
Then, I imagine, he will be working on an *official*,  *cygwin*, port of 
rpm.  (Previous cygwin ports have NOT been part of the official 
setup-installable system).

That's the first step.

The next steps are:

A mingw port of the db library (static)

A mingw port of the rpm-libs  (static).  Testing this outside of the 
path magic provided by [cygwin|setup.exe] will be a trick; rpm hardcodes 
many things...perhaps this is the point that the oft-mentioned "cygwin 
path handling (static) library" needs to become a reality...

The magic bits to hook setup.exe to (mingw, static) libdb and (mingw, 
static) librpm.

But I believe all of the above are included in Nicholas's long term 
goals -- so Robert, you've got at least one motivated volunteer who has 
already put his money where his mouth is, with the berk-db packages...

--Chuck