Re: 6th summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)

2005-10-26 Thread Abraham Backus
It's about time that I replied... I've been swamped with more responsibilities at work and haven't been able to maintain my packages. They are all out of date. One collection (c-client and uw-imap*) has a security issue that would be resolved by upgrading the package to the current released v

Updated: xerces-c 2.3.0-2

2003-06-11 Thread Abraham Backus
I had built xerces-c 2.3.0-1 on my system with a cygwin dll and environment that I had built from recent CVS sources and therefore cygxerces-c23.dll was looking for some imports (specifically _fopen64) from cygwin1.dll that aren't in a released version. I re-built on another machine that has a "fr

Re: xerces-c 2.3.0-1

2003-06-02 Thread Abraham Backus
Removing them is fine with me :) thanks! -Abe - Original Message - > PS- Shall I remove package files for version 2.1.0-1?

xerces-c 2.3.0-1

2003-06-02 Thread Abraham Backus
There has been a new release of xerces-c (2.3.0). Here is part of the release announcement: The Xerces-C team is pleased to announce that Xerces-C 2.3.0 is now available. The primary features of this release are: - pluggable memory management: Allows an application to have Xerces request memor

Re: xerces-c 2.2.0-1

2003-02-08 Thread Abraham Backus
> 1. Is it necessary to put 'gcc' in the 'requires' directive for > xerces-c-devel ? I've scanned the current setup.ini file and all > -devel packages I've looked at do not include 'gcc'. I guess if nobody else is requiring gcc, it isn't necessary. > 2. Does xerces-c-doc require xerces-c-devel ?

xerces-c 2.2.0-1

2003-02-07 Thread Abraham Backus
There has been a new release of the official xerces-c 2.2.0. More info at http://xml.apache.org/ >From the announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Highlights of this version: - C++ Namespace Support - Schema 1.0 Errata Implementation - Experimental Implementation of XML 1.1 - More DOM L3 Core Sup

maintainer questions: fvwm, net-snmp, UW-imapd

2003-01-31 Thread Abraham Backus
I want to check the list to see if there are active maintainers of any of these packages before I decide to start work on any of them.   Net-snmp and UW-imapd aren't currently in our distribution, but I've seen some discussions of these two packages in the list.  Is anyone actively working o

Re: nasm-0.98.35-1

2002-12-05 Thread Abraham Backus
I installed this and it looks fine to me. Didn't know how best to test it, but I remembered in the openssl build instructions for VC++ that you can use nasm to build some of the routines to make openssl faster. I followed these openssl instructions to use this nasm and everything built ok. -Abe

setup.exe and HTTP Host header

2002-12-02 Thread Abraham Backus
I've discovered that in some cases I'm not getting the response that I expect from the HTTP request that setup.exe issues. I believe my particular case is probably a misconfiguration of the Apache server that hosts my website, but in any case I think it might make the setup.exe user experience a l

Re: xerces-c setup.hint problem

2002-11-27 Thread Abraham Backus
Christopher, Is this something that I did? Just want to make sure everything is ok in future releases :) Is the problem that the setup.hint has "desc:", when it should have been "sdesc:"? thanks! -Abe - Original Message - > I've fixed this problem but please make a note of this and ma

Re: [Reviewed] Re: xerces-c, xerces-c21, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-1 av

2002-11-24 Thread Abraham Backus
Thanks for reviewing Gareth. I've updated the script to do a "make distclean" before creating the src tar just in case there might be some .o or other build-time generated files laying around. Updated tar.bz2 file (for src only) is in same location if it needs to be looked at: http://abackus.imag

xerces-c, xerces-c21, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-1 available for review/upload

2002-11-15 Thread Abraham Backus
1) changed dll naming (cygxerces-c21.dll) and packaging based on the suggestions and guidance of Charles Wilson 2) patched stricmp/strnicmp bug found by Gareth Pearce Apache bug #14612 GCCDefs clashes with cygwin's string.h for stricmp and strnicmp (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cg

xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-1 available for review/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Abraham Backus
1) fixed issue where the cygxerces-c2_1_0.dll wasn't being included (my tar include file didn't get updated). 2) added patch from Gareth for nasty bug in DOMDocumentTypeImpl.cpp 3) changed back from -2 to -1 in version, following conventions at http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html source: http://aback

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available for review/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Abraham Backus
Sorry about that guys... I don't like making excuses, so I'll just blame it on the hallucinogenic drugs :) I'll have a -1 version back there soon and I'll remove the -2 version. It'll contain the fix for the problem with the wrong dll (my tar.incl file still had the libxerces instead of cygxerce

xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available for review/upload

2002-11-03 Thread Abraham Backus
I added a patch to follow some recommendations from Gerrit.   1) have the library name be "cygxerces-c2_1_0.dll" rather than "libxerces-c2_1_0.dll" (following conventions used by other libraries in cygwin).   2) the symlinks created in the build structure during "make" more accurately repres

(less funky links) xerces-c and xerces-c-devel and xerces-c (src) ready for uploading (really, it is)

2002-10-16 Thread Abraham Backus
Sorry for the excessive mailing related to this, it's my first shot at getting a cygwin package... Anyway, I didn't like the process that xdrive provided for third party retrieval of files and yahoo briefcase wouldn't let me share files either. I put all the files on a single server for consiste

xerces-c and xerces-c-devel and xerces-c (src) ready for uploading

2002-10-16 Thread Abraham Backus
Same links apply for the packages themselves, the source package is on a different site due to space limitations on all the other places that I know of... https://plus.xdrive.com/s/804283208Fy53FcN9QeLkMTBhBPt&partner=xdrv click on the "Download" button, then double check the download filename...

xerces-c and xerces-c-devel ready for uploading

2002-10-16 Thread Abraham Backus
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~abackus/xerces-c-2.1.0-1.tar.bz2   http://www.mycgiserver.com/~abackus/xerces-c-devel-2.1.0-1.tar.bz2   I also have a source tar.bz2, but it is just over the 5M limit on any of the public web servers that I have access to :)  If anyone knows where I can drop it, let

proposal: xerces-c and xerces-c-devel

2002-10-15 Thread Abraham Backus
I'm interested in becoming a package maintainer for the xerces-c and xerces-c-devel (http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html) packages. Below are the proposed setup.hint files for these packages. I'll have the tar files ready for uploading by the end of this week. thank you! -Abe xerces-c se