[Monotone-devel] Re: interest in cygwin monotone-viz binaries for 0.27?

[Shawn Samuel]

I took a look and don't think I'll mind maintaining an official cygwin
package. However, I have one main question that the Cygwin Package
Contributor's Guide didn't answer for me:

How do you require dependencies on older versions of a package? The
current build of cygwin dot.exe (graphviz, which monotone-viz needs
for graphing) requires libltdl-3 version 1.5.20-2, which is the older
of the two versions you can currently pick from setup.exe.

This brings up the other issue, which is that this dependency is
really a dependency of dot, which should itself be a cygwin package,
so I'll look into building this myself or turning the binary release
of cygwin graphviz that's available on the web into a cygwin package
if the distributor's of that package are amenable to this.

shawn

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> Shawn Samuel wrote:
> > I have monotone-viz (and mtn) compiled and running under cygwin for
> > 0.27 (thanks to build instructions from kinetik). If anybody is
> > interested, I'll make the binaries and/or the build instructions
> > available on the web along with the dependencies needed to make it run
> > under cygwin.
> It is always "very very bad" to have cygwin dependencies sticking
> around (for the special way it is loaded, cygwin1.dll does not react
> well to finding multiple copies of itself in the path)... why don't
> you propose to mantain an official cygwin monotone-viz package altogether?
> Or, even if you do not want the work to mantain the package, why don't
> you build it as a package and put on a web space with the necessary
> setup.ini so that it can be installed (and automatically upgraded)
> using cygwin's setup.exe?
> It's always the best way to have a working cygwin installation.
> 
> I can provide all the know-how.
> 
> Ah, yes, and I *will* upgrade cygwin's official monotone package to
> 0.27 ASAP, should have done that already, but had a few busy evenings
> at home.
> 
>     Lapo