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Re: new package offering: zsh
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:17:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: new package offering: zsh
- References: <1022183956.9775.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205241651220.14210-100000@gremlin.fruitbat.org>
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:02:35PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>On 23 May 2002 cygwin-apps-digest-help@cygwin.com wrote:
>There were some messages/questions that were only on the list (I get
>the digest version), so I appologize for not responding more promptly.
>I did want to respond to people and get a final resolution on zsh.
If you are going to be a maintainer, I'd request that you subscribe to
the non-digest version of cygwin-apps. The traffic is really not that
great.
Hmm. We should make this a requirement in the package maintainer's
guide.
>>From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>>On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:32:07PM -0500, Matthew Smith wrote:
>>>I'll vote "yes" for this, but I do have a question: have you dealt with
>>>binary/text issues specific to the windows platform in your port?
>>
>>zsh has historically had pretty strong cygwin support so I don't think
>>this will be an issue.
>>
>>I would be thrilled to have this in the distribution. I've been using
>>my own version of zsh for years and have been meaning to submit it
>>as a package. I even went as far as incorporating it into mknetrel.
>>
>>I'd be happy to have some other victi, er, person to deal with the
>>inevitable questions, though.
>
>I'm willing to handle issues with zsh, and in particular, this port of
>zsh. As I've said, I really enjoy hacking on it, and I feel it's a shell
>worth of inclusion in Cygwin. Why else would I have offered it?
Huh? You are apparently translating something that I said into some
kind of challenge. Let me summarize my position:
"I love zsh. I was going to offer zsh as a cygwin package but I'm happy
to have someone else do it".
I didn't infer that you weren't willing to support it and I didn't
assume that you'd just posted this with no intention of offering it
as a package.
(And, no, Chuck, I don't need a 10 paragraph explanation of where you
think the misinterpretation lies, here)
>>One minor question: isn't there a libncurses requirement for zsh?
>>And maybe a libintl-1?
>
>Funny you should mention that. Actually, only the Zle modules cares
>about screen attributes and control, and it is it's own terminal manager
>(using termio for the line control). It does link with termcap, but it's
>a static link, so no runtime needed, really. Also, there doesn't appear
>to be a need for libintl (at least I didn't see it in any of the links).
If it's using termcap then it needs a termcap dependency for
/etc/termcap.
>Now, as to the use of O_BINARY. Is it the general concensus that this
>change should be investigated before the package will be accepted or
>would people like to give it a try while I experiment with it?
IMO, if you are going to be actively experimenting, you might as well
release this and see what happens.
cgf