Re: Problems with glibmm FTP tarballs on MinGW/win32

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> To sum up for glibmm maintainers: at least the glibmm 2.6 [1] tarballs
> have a
> strange content making them twice as big as necessary and causing a
> SIGPIPE on
> Windows platform. The extracted files are however fine.
>
> The suggested course of action is to repackage the tarball, as suggested
> by
> Ross below.

I'm not convinced that there's anything wrong with the tarballs, and I
don't know what we should do differently to make them work for you. Could
you check the glibmm and gtkmm 2.8 ones to see whether it's a one-off
thing?

I have CCed the gtkmm win32 port maintainer - Cedric Gustin. I'd expect
him to see this problem too.

I know that we don't use the default tarball format, because that can't
support long enough filenames:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=160244

You will always get a better response on a mailing list than from me
personally.

> Ross Golder wrote:
>> You could be right. In that case, the best thing to do would probably be
>> to contact the maintainers of the glibmm package, explain what you've
>> found and ask them to re-package and re-upload their tarball. I've
>> copied them in for their info. If they have any problems or questions
>> about re-uploading a tarball, they can contact gnome-sysadmin gnome org
>> for help and assistance.
>
> I guess your Cc'ing them should be sufficient for a first try. I'll wait a
> week then I'll try to reach developers through gtkmm-list gnome org
>
> Please keep me informed on this subject to avoid uselessly mailing this
> list.
>
> Thanks all for your time.
>
> Regards,
> GISQUET Christophe
>
> [1] For reference, it is used through libxml++ by the developers of the
> wormux
> game ( http://www.wormux.org/wiki/en/index.php )
>
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