From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64294 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2017 21:18:10 -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 64265 invoked by uid 89); 25 Oct 2017 21:18:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-100.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=offer, uploads, H*R:D*cygwin.com X-HELO: drew.franken.de Received: from mail-n.franken.de (HELO drew.franken.de) (193.175.24.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:18:09 +0000 Received: from aqua.hirmke.de (aquarius.franken.de [193.175.24.89]) (Authenticated sender: aquarius) by mail-n.franken.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40D297100A947 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from calimero.vinschen.de (calimero.vinschen.de [192.168.129.6]) by aqua.hirmke.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8396F5E04B5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:18:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6C883A818DF; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:18:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:18:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Retiring setup.hint Message-ID: <20171025211805.GB7980@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20171025202331.GK22429@calimero.vinschen.de> <0db8da69-6952-c152-9fc0-29d0d9df4004@dronecode.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0db8da69-6952-c152-9fc0-29d0d9df4004@dronecode.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1741 On Oct 25 21:46, Jon Turney wrote: > On 25/10/2017 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 25 20:42, Jon Turney wrote: > > >=20 > > > I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint= some > > > time shortly after 2017-11-18. > > >=20 > > > This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which, s= topped > > > generating these files, so if you're using cygport >=3D 0.23.0, no ac= tion is > > > needed. > > >=20 > > > Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for mor= e than > > > 6 months [2]. > > >=20 > > > After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the > > > cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as = per > > > [3]. > > >=20 > > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html > > > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html > > > [3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html > >=20 > > I'm still generating setup.hint files for the Cygwin package itself. > >=20 > > Please have a look into cygwin's cygport file. Do we have an *easy* > > replacement for creating test releases from cygport in the meantime? > >=20 > > Ideally I can simply call cygport with a --test parameter or some such > > to create a test release. >=20 > See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00017.html which contains > my patch to do this, and an offer to implement this in whatever way is > acceptable to Yaakov. Looks good to me. > > As long as we don't have that, I'm inclined to veto the idea to drop > > setup.hint. Thanks, Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZ8P+NAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gRVkP/i7xPye4yEM+u8UR8+CRoy6V CF0Bjk/ocIwOBWwSnUk2G30tE8qvi4J0FzQdfbyv3XASqMWi3YTtj3SH4eMx/EnC KcsraDNzPLA3SFX3/3Z19jmq1QMPX3ghoJYEthpsuJw0hUNoWSSuyaMQj2Y6Lx/T oVBpOl/JvPskVi5DlcanntDx0tBfxpp21pQetfOLqU4WUx3GfXcc7Wygxjp37QYh 6c1YA06luauLj7TSa2tTLa0/p/bOMDGwacuRQCOx9CJLt37bEcws6egeMOP/7VsR LY/8nzDp8blBhuUBH/usKUHIYG4VHhbBXeZe51T99DQSey7XFGdIuK/CfgqHQNhB qIPeoF2VQSqO2xp1KE2ujBSj8A38fTIV3dtP7mDYYL95UXz4BnyqDW0vXOJCLMJK y67utcJZ9qiipvkyiWjCjDufhFRy45oPFVzujdygfI5Xcpx1GHch1gPDIK8tISRF fzwguPFuxfRNC5K32OewLq1lr9br6bBvrn2vcRjTu9B9ysH3DRLvcda/3TQk4+vM PDPnddRWnnBMhV5V76y6Qp8QdOBdbyEQPYYNZA/GzFMVI3vIcuVxeAOtRCEPrbUM DEykQqDCRHNuNW91IgI7VdRNRvrEReV15Pynn0Ii4UaaY/Sr88kZP65+cQ3Kxpmm 95Wn1APBVWvOejoed/Ao =4G4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg--