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Re: [ITA] ping
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:25:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ITA] ping
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 25 18:32, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 25/04/2014 16:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Apr 24 20:33, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> >>just as I built the 64 bit version and it seems to work, with
>> >>the same limitation of 32 bit counterpart.
>> >>
>> >>to download (remove the index.html's) :
>> >>
>> >>wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=0 \
>> >>http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86_64/ping/index.html
>> >>
>> >>find x86_64 -name index.html -o -name md5.sum | xargs rm
>> >
>> >Looks good, as far as the binary package is concerned. However,
>> >since the package is apparently orphaned, wouldn't you like
>> >to take over maintainership completely? While youre' at it, you
>> >could convert the package to cygport and, consequentially, to xz
>> >packaging...
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Corinna
>> >
>>
>> I doubt the xz compression is worth...
>>
>> $ ls -sh1 *bz2
>> 32K ping-1.0-1-src.tar.bz2
>> 12K ping-1.0-1.tar.bz2
>
>Perhaps not, but having a maintainer is ;)
Ditto. And we are moving to .xz so...
cgf