On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:32:37PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> Have you considered the implications of having someone else do your >> packages? That means potentially different setup.hint, potentially >> different versions and version-numbering schemes, and possible >> source-level patches which you have not touched. > >My (maybe faulty) understanding is that 32bit and 64bit will be >completely separate distributions of Cygwin. I'm not sure how much >value it has to try to synchronize them down to the level of version or >even release numbers; that sounds like a lot of extra coordination that >suddenly becomes necessary.
Other distros seem to synchronize down to version and release and while I know that may not always be possible I think it is something to strive for. >It would be certainly be more difficult when there are different >maintainers for the same package in the two distributions, so if that >sort of synchronization is a goal, then I agree that the maintainer >should usually be the same person for both distributions. > >Only time will tell how many differences 64bit really triggers in terms >of extra patches and the like. Seeing how much code still assumes >Cygwin == Win32 w/ POSIX this might be a bumpier ride than expected >(although I'm usually having good luck by simply throwing out the >Cygwin-specific code and take the Linux branch). Yep. cgf
