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Re: ITP moratorium


On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:02:48AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> >But taking a close look at article.db, it seems everything that goes to
> >ports.html was or is in index.html ?
>
> articles.db is the master source for the software and news.  You can
> always check the web pages out via cvs if you are curious about how
> things work.
>
> >Example:
> >
> >Title:  BerkeleyDB 4.0
> >Url:    http://batousai.sdf-eu.org/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB-4.0-cygwin.tar.gz
> >
> >A more recent version is in Cygwin. Not to mention the link is
> >broken.
>
> ...which was *exactly* what you were going to research.  Why are you arguing
> the point again?

Yes, but I was going to edit ports.html, and didn't know that
editing article.db will also change such news.

> Since you didn't provide a diff, I just quickly went through
> the ported software list and found that all of the links,
> except the one that you mentioned are still active.

Or redirecting to another.

> I didn't try to determine if the links still provided a
> cygwin version of a package but I am satisified that the list
> still serves its purpose.

Exactly.

1- FreeCIV seems to have moved to Windows and deprecated
Cygwin:

http://www.freeciv.org/ftp/packages/windows-X/
http://www.freeciv.org/ftp/packages/windows/

And
http://www.freeciv.org/ftp/packages/windows/freeciv-1.14.1-README.txt
mentions:

"There exists a third way to run Freeciv on Microsoft Windows:
under Cygwin (www.cygwin.com), using an X server (e.g. XFree86
as distributed with Cygwin).  This requires compiling Freeciv
from source; it is not recommended, except as a portability
test."

2- And what about licenses ? txt2pdf is shareware:

"txt2pdf is shareware. That means that you're welcome to try it
and use it as much as you want for 30 days. If after that time
you like txt2pdf or would like to continue using it, we ask you
please to purchase it or remove it from your system."

3- http://soren.lund.org/cadaver/:

"I announced this page on the Cygwin site on August 7th 2001,
and on October 26th it had received more than 5000 visitors!"

Yes, and he didn't update it anymore. The current release is
0.22.0.

4- http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/:

"dxpc-win32-static.zip Win32 binary, statically linked,
compiled with Cygwin32 beta 20"

Not to mention cygwin1.dll is included in
http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/3.8.0/dxpc-win32-static.zip, and the
sources aren't on the site.

http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Software/Ciao/:

http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Mail/ciao-users/0261.html

And not to mention most sites don't have a single word about
Cygwin. http://www.geocities.com/kirellii and
http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/cygwin.en.html are the
best in this respect.

> Maybe we should start suggesting that people with random
> of-use-to-only-a-few packages should just maintain a web site
> and submit the package to this list.

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