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Re: [ITP] libargp 20110921-1 (ping)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:06:36AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I'd like to package and maintain libargp for Cygwin. argp is a C interface for
>> processing command line arguments.
>>
>> The libargp source files are taken from gnulib. gnulib is a well-known program
>> available in major Linux distros (e.g. http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnulib),
>> but I'm not aware of any distros that separately package just argp from it. So
>> I'm not sure if libargp needs to be voted on or not for inclusion in Cygwin.
>>
>> Documentation: http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Argp.html
>> Source home page: http://www.gnu.org/s/gnulib/MODULES.html
>> License: LGPL
>
>Package maintainers, please consider voting in favor of libargp for Cygwin.
>
>I don't know of any rule that says I can't vote for my own package, so I'm
>voting +1 for libargp. I want it specifically to use with nosleep [1]. I
>could have just baked the argp source files statically into nosleep, but they
>would have made up the bulk of the code, which seemed silly. It seems better
>to make libargp available for shared use.
I think the fact that other releases contain an implementation of argp should
be good enough to make its inclusion a foregone conclusion. I do hope that
someday the package can go away and this functionality can be added to the
Cygwin DLL though.
So, all we need is a GTG on packaging.
The same doesn't apply to the "nosleep" package, of course.
cgf