Adopt Cygwin tidy package

[AnrDaemon]

The HTML Tidy package in Cygwin is extremely old and seems abandoned.
It would be wonderful, if somebody could take care of it.

What is Cygwin?

Cygwin is a POSIX API implementation for Windows ("newlib", the "Cygwin DLL" itself) and a package distribution system with a "rolling release" approach to update packages.

While the Cygwin DLL is maintained by a core development team, the project as a whole receive contributions from many people - package maintainers - devoting their time to update and support numerous packages provided through the single package manager.

But there's a Windows builds for Tidy already?

Cygwin is not "Windows", Cygwin is "sort of Linux".
While it is possible to pipe data in and out of tools from different environments with little care, directly working with files across operating environment borders requires wrappers.
Nothing that can't be solved with relative ease, but a native build would be greatly appreciated.

[geoffmcl]

@AnrDaemon thanks for your comment. I am well aware of Cygwin, and have built projects in the past using it...

I am not sure I fully understand what you are suggesting here... as far as I am aware current tidy, that is a console app tidy.exe, and libtidy, static and shared, can be built using Cygwin...

Have you, or others, tried it? What results? I am sure we can address any problems, if there are any...

I am not personally interested in adopting a Cygwin HTML Tidy package, but may consider adding it to our binary distributions if someone else supplied and looked after it, solidly and regularly...

And naturally such a package could be added to the Cygwin packages, but I am not familiar with what that entails, or exactly what that offers...

So who is the champion that's going to stand up, and own this? Suggestions are fine, but who will do the work?

[AnrDaemon]

I'm aware that it can be built (in fact, I'm working towards setting up build environment for Cygwin to test some stuff I'm interested in).
But Cygwin is not a "build it yourself" kind of project, it is distributing actual binaries, and you don't have to be a code guru to use it.
The proposition is to take the hat of the package maintainer for Cygwin and upload the packages directly to the Cygwin repository.

Assuming it is building cleanly, I could probably help with initial setup. But I'm not a C/C++ programmer and unable to support the builds if anything goes down the rabbit hole.

[geoffmcl]

@AnrDaemon well that is what these issues are about... If there is a cygwin build issue, then I am sure it can be addressed here...

In general Tidy is a simple C project, and tends towards the original K&R C... It does nothing particularly special in this regard, so should be easily built by a gcc windows port... I have for instance successfuly built tidy using MinGW and MinGW-w64 which also has a windows gcc port...

As stated, I personally am very unlikely to setup the cygwin environment, but am sure there may be others interested...

So go for it, rabbits and all... ;=))

I am sure we can find a place like get-tidy to mention it on our web site... keep us informed... thanks...

[geoffmcl]

@AnrDaemon so is anything happening on this? It has been several months...

I just noticed there was a previous closed #362 on this topic...

Searching around noted http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/State-of-HTML-Tidy-package-td134148.html where this was discussed...

But searching say https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html, I could only find the 2009 libtidy0_99_0, which is very sad...

Anyway, due to the fact that this is not really a tidy issue, but a cygwin issue, and no further comments, closing this...

But would still like to know if there is any cygwin update to add to our web site...

Feel free to reopen, or post a new issue... thanks...

[AnrDaemon]

This is not a "cygwin issue", as there's no active tidy package maintaner for Cygwin.
Cygwin itself provide installer and core library, the rest is provided by maintainers of individual packages.
And #362 is not related in any way, so to say.

[geoffmcl]

@AnrDaemon thanks for the further feedback...

there's no active tidy package maintaner (sic) for Cygwin.

That I understood, and thought that was what you were going to do... oh, well...

As advised, I am personally not interested, and more or less left this open a while hoping someone would step up...

And #362 is not related in any way, so to say.

That was about building tidy from source, with-in the cygwin quasi unix environment, which I took the time to do, test and report, and can not see how it is unrelated.

That seems what a tidy package maintainer for Cygwin would have to do, to have the binaries to upload, but no problem... Maybe I am wrong...

What more do you want from tidy? Thanks...

[AnrDaemon]

I do not want anything specifically, I was suggesting that somebody with skill and knowledge could step up to support one more distribution channel.
But if not, then not.