Re: Updating w.d.o/{intro/organization#distribution,ports/}
SFU/SUA is dead...
There will be a complete retreat from this in Win8 Server. The
component are deprecated and POSIX source compatibility, NFS, etc. will
be sricttly a 3rd-party game, once again.
Windows always made for a really crappy Linux or BSD.
-- Jeremiah
On 6/4/12 1:07 PM, Craig Talbert wrote:
> Martin - Looking on the page, although it hasn't been updated since
> 2009, I don't see anything about the debian-interix port demise. If it
> really is dead, maybe it's time to add something saying so?
>
> http://www.debian-interix.net/
>
> - Craig
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> the debian-interix port is currently dead, see also here for details on the
>> fate of the Interix kernel:
>> http://www.suacommunity.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=19631
>>
>> The development has been stalled because so many annoying bugs exist in the
>> Interix closed-source kernel DLLs, and MS doesn't care.
>> Also, there is still no gcc/binutils 64-bit for Windows available.
>> The binutils part should really be done by MS, as they know the PE-COFF
>> binary format best, but they don't care, either.
>>
>> So David, if you want to, and only if you want to, you may include the
>> debian-interix port in the ports page (it currently isn't listed at all) as
>> currently dead project, just for completeness of the page. It might be
>> re-animated, when a real development of the Interix kernel should occur at
>> some time.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, David Prévot wrote:
>>
>>> [ Huge cross-post, sorry. Please, only respond to your port list and
>>> debian-www@l.d.o, or at least keep me CC if you drop debian-www ]
>>>
>>> Hi ports and ports-like team,
>>>
>>> Le 05/04/2012 16:27, David Prévot a écrit :
>>>
>>>> The ports and ports-like part of our organization page [1] might be
>>>> pretty outdated on the members side. Could you please confirm that the
>>>> members list of your team is still accurate, or provide an updated list.
>>>> Without any answer within a week, I'll drop the members name from this
>>>> page, but will keep the name of the port and a link to the mailing list
>>>> as main contact point. If you answer after a week, I'll also be happy to
>>>> update the page afterwards.
>>>
>>> It's been a long week? Thanks to Bill (Alpha), Dann (IA-64), Thorsten
>>>
>>> (m68k), Carlos and John (PA-RISC), Samuel and Svante (GNU/Hurd), and
>>> Christoph and Arno (GNU/kFreeBSD), the organization page [1] has just
>>> been updated.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/intro/organization.data?r1=1.428&r2=1.429
>>>
>>> If you have a second thought, please don't hesitate to reply so we can
>>> update the page [1].
>>>
>>>> 1: http://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution
>>>>
>>>> If you have any update to propose about your port page [2], I'd also be
>>>> happy to update the respective page on your behalf, and would be even
>>>> happier if you do it yourself (please, ask for write access [3] if
>>>> you're not already a member of webwml).
>>>>
>>>> 2: http://www.debian.org/ports/
>>>> 3: http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs#write-access
>>>
>>> The offer still stands ;-)
>>>
>>>> We also have one open bug report [4] about the www.d.o/ports/ part,
>>>> specific to amd64, any help to solve it would be welcome (closing it in
>>>> case it doesn't make sense could also be appropriate).
>>>>
>>>> 4: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611830
>>>
>>> This one too?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> David
>
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