From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 66928 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2015 00:10:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 66912 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2015 00:10:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:10:23 +0000 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A16008E673 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from YAAKOV04.redhat.com (ovpn-116-41.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.41]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id tA40AKfs016185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:10:21 -0500 Message-ID: <1446595828.9596.23.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: cygport: 'announce' feature branch From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <563941D9.6080606@cornell.edu> References: <1446537985.10444.84.camel@cygwin.com> <563941D9.6080606@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 18:23 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/3/2015 3:06 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > I just created a new 'announce' feature branch in cygport git: > > > > https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/tree/announce > > > > The new 'announce' command generates an announcement template from > > the .cygport file based on NAME/VERSION/RELEASE, PKG_NAMES, and > > DESCRIPTION, to which you can easily add release-specific information, > > and then sends the message via an SMTP server. Note that this adds > > This is a nice feature. Thanks. > > > dependencies on perl-Authen-SASL, perl-MIME-tools, and > > perl-MIME-tools isn't in the distro yet. Good point, I just moved it in from Ports. > If there's no mailserver configured, I'd like to see cygport save the > mbox file in the current directory and give an informational message, > rather than saving it in /tmp and giving an error message. Users might > want to simply paste it into an email, and the error message seems a > little unfriendly. First, I have already changed SMTP_SERVER to default to localhost, matching git's behaviour. (If it wasn't already painfully obvious, this is all modelled after git send-email.) Therefore, the error message now reflects an actual failure to send the message. As for the location of the mbox file, it's something I'm willing to consider. > P.S. You still haven't applied the texlive patch from > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-08/msg00019.html; is this just an > oversight, or do you need me to explain in more detail why it's needed? Oversight; August was a busy month. Applied. -- Yaakov