Msys2-packages: autossh

[transtone]

please add autossh. It works fine in cygwin

[transtone]

Is there any body care about this?

[pedro7]

I can try, since I'm also interested, but will be my first package for MSYS2. If I am successful, I'll post here.

Timeframe: not for another 3 weeks.
If I fail to report it is because I was not successful.

[equalsraf]

@pedro7 here is a PKGBUILD, untested but it does build https://github.com/equalsraf/MSYS2-packages/commit/99eca787163a6a69d5f6b728d8c7b96fb8446324

[pedro7]

Question: do binutils and gcc belong to package base-devel?
Otherwise, a _makedepends_ should be defined to include them (from binutils: strip)

[elieux]

Read our wikipage on building packages, especially this part:

The core packages groups you need to install if you wish to build from PKGBUILDs are:

• base-devel for any building
• msys2-devel for building msys2 packages
• mingw-w64-i686-toolchain for building mingw32 packages
• mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain for building mingw64 packages

Also, the msys2-packages repository is supposed to stay minimal, only containing tools and programs necessary for building and then maybe some generally useful tools. We're not trying to make another Cygwin.

Can you make a case for why autossh should be included in MSYS2?

[pedro7]

I thought you were trying to create a cygwin which would not depend on the external setup-x86_64.exe and would be as self-contained as possible.

We're not trying to make another Cygwin.

Therefore the answer is no. autossh does _not_ belong in MSYS2.

[elieux]

We would of course like to see Cygwin adopt pacman and PKGBUILDs, and it's good that MSYS2 can showcase them, but that's not the goal. The focus is to provide a repository of native Windows (mingw-w64) software with all the benefits of real (not like Chocolatey) package management and an environment for building it with ease.

@transtone, would you like to comment, or did my explanation convince you as well?

Note that you're free to create your own PKGBUILD and/or binary repositories if that suits you. It's IMO super easy with the pacman suite.

[mati865]

We could create additional (officially unsupported) repository with software that users would like to see but it does collide with MSTS2 goals. Something between community and AUR in Arch.