Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: Fw: [Mingw-users] Re: Grep 2.5 for MinGW

[F. <j_r...@ya...>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:01:49AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> I've added manubee to the list of developers and have associated 
> ma...@us... with the mingw-dvlpr mailing list.  If you 
> wish to post messages with a different account please let me know.
> 
> Work with Kees on the package layout.  The ports subdirectory has 
> already been added but is empty.  I will look at the web pages to decide 
> what/how w.r.t. promoting MinGW ports.  The MinGW ports maintenance, 
> implementation and distribution belong to you and Kees.

I think that this MinGW native ports is a great thing. 

Unfortunately I no longer have the time or need for such ports, but I
once had and spent alot of time and effort in producing the ports
available at
http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/ported .
Although most packages there are now outdated, special care was taken
then to deal with the line-endings and other details as explained in
the above page.

So I think that the diffs of the changes made by me at the time (which
were in many cases based on the analysis of the diffs of other ports
available then) are still valuable for this effort. So I've put them all
on http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/ported/ for
your convenience.

BTW, the convention taken regarding the line endings was:
 - read/write hand-written files (configuration files, scripts, etc.) in
   text mode
 - read/write raw data files (input/output streams) in binary.

Of course that the later is arguable, and probably doesn't make much
sense nowadays with the availabilty of MSYS for building unix stuff. It
all depends of what you want to do with the ports.

José Fonseca
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