On 21/12/2023 04:27, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 20/12/2023 13:16, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 06/12/2023 17:19, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2023-12-05 06:07, Jon Turney wrote:
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I tweaked the unmaintained packages report [1] a bit so it identifies
'base' and 'direct or indirect base dependencies'.
(But you're quite right to point out that the build requirements for a
native Cygwin build are also important)
[1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/unmaintained.html
I could take over alternatives and bzip2.
It seems our alternatives is a subset of upstream
https://github.com/fedora-sysv/chkconfig
I will need to look on the details of the implementation.
I think to remember that upstream went for a road not feasible for us,
but last I looked was long time ago, and I could remember totally wrong.
Yeah, repology seems to think there are a couple of alternative
implementations, so the upstream version number in that report (which is
retrieved from repology) might not be accurate.
Nice to have for alternatives is to manage in some ways also DLLs
so for me to remove the Lapack PATH hack.
I think the issue there is that we are dependent on the Windows loader
to find DLLs when creating a process, and that doesn't understand Cygwin
symlinks. Perhaps avoidable if we were to use native symlinks, but I
think those are still not widely available enough to make that possible...
