Adam Dinwoodie writes: >> Patches to cygport to make this work better welcome! > > I _think_ most -- if not all -- the cygport infrastructure is already in > place: cygport clearly already supports both virtual packages and > "provides" listings, which are the only bits of this that I think are > actually necessary.
This was implemented for Perl mainly and the corresponding patch to cygport to request the correct virtual Perl package is still not upstream. > The difficult part is just either (a) updating the > cygport files for all the packages that would benefit, or (b) finding a > way to have cygport work out that this is something it should do > automatically. The real problem is that python is multi-version on Cygwin and what's considered the "main" version is going to change independently of package releases, so the way it's done for Perl (or any other single version package that has synchronized updates of dependent packages) won't work. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KomplexerWaves -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
