On 3/17/2011 4:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/17/2011 01:56 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
I'm willing to maintain patches for Cygwin, to make the transition
easier. But if there is no chance that the package gets accepted, I
rather save myself the trouble.
There's two sets of patches being talked about here:
1) What temporary (3-month?) patches are needed to make the dos2unix
package a drop-in replacement to the existing cygwin dos2unix, so that
people can start testing if it really was a drop-in.
2) What patches (permanent) are worth adding to upstream, to fix
deficiencies in the usability of upstream when compared to what cygwin has.
OK, everybody, time out for a minute. Rather than talk vapor, I'll
develop the patches necessary.
The first one, or first set (e.g. #2, above), I'll propose that
"official" upstream dos2unix accept *for all platforms*. It will not
change upstream's behavior in any way, except for offering some new options.
The second one (#1, above), I'll propose that Erwin use as part of his
initial cygwin package offering. This one would be only a transitional
measure, and would be slated to be dropped from a later cygwin package
after a certain amount of time has passed.