On 28/02/2022 13:29, Ken Brown wrote:
[Redirecting to the cygwin-apps list]
On 2/28/2022 3:49 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi Ken
I am a qemu developer at Red Hat. The "official" qemu Windows build
uses cygwin, and the glib version there is quite old.
I saw you have made some effort to update the package
(https://www.cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/?p=git/cygwin-packages/glib2.0.git;a=search;h=refs/heads/playground;s=Ken+Brown;st=author)
What's the situation? Is there a bug tracking the issues?
Hi Marc,
The last discussion of this that I can recall started here:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2020-May/040105.html
What's needed is for someone to adopt all of the GNOME components and
maintain them. As you'll see in the discussion I cited, I briefly
considered updating only glib2 and a few others, but then I decided that
I wasn't willing to take the responsibility of fixing/updating other
components that broke as a result of this. So I pushed what I had done
and left it there.
It would be great if someone would step up and take over, but I'm not in
a position to do that myself.
Since this is possibly the most important unmaintained package (it's #1
by dependencies on this list [1]), I guess I'll adopt it.
I see you got as far as 2.64.3 [2]. I'm inclined to deploy that (maybe
as test) and deal with the fallout myself, while I work on bringing it
completely up to date.
Any issues I should be aware or, or other problems you foresee with that
approach?
[1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/unmaintained.html
[2] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/glib2.0/log/?h=playground
