Re: fuse

[Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>]

Hi Jon, Achim,

Jon Turney wrote:
> On 01/02/2022 06:20, ASSI wrote:
>> Mark Geisert writes:
>>> I see that 'mtr' is another Cygwin package that makes use of a Windows
>>> driver via libpcap.  Maybe I can use mtr.cygport etc as a guide; I'm
>>> unsure whether a Cygwin package should be including Windows drivers.
>>
>> No they should not, although there is at least one other package (libusb
>> IIRC) that requires non-standard Windows drivers for functioning fully
>> or correctly.  How to present that requirement in setup is another
>> question.
> 
> The 'message:' line in the .hint file (see [1]) can be used for a related purpose 
> of telling people that Windows drivers are needed, although in fact this is only 
> used by libusb0 at the moment.
> 
> Actually checking for those being installed generically in setup seems fraught.  
> But I guess you could write a postinstall script which checks somehow for it's 
> presence and fails if it's not present?
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html

I had seen "message:" there on [1] and tried once to make use of it, but failed. 
 From reading cygport's pkg_pkg.cygpart, it seemed to me that a 'MESSAGE="foo"' 
line in the cygfuse.cygport file should cause a 'message: cygfuse "foo"' to be 
emitted to the .hint file.  That didn't seem to happen.  Maybe I goofed.

I then thought about manually adding the "message: ..." line, but then realized I 
had two full 75-char lines of info to display and did not know if that was too big 
or what it would look like.  I dropped the idea for the time being and went with 
an Overview section on the package update announcement instead.

I should look at libusb.cygport; thanks Achim for that reminder.
Regards,

..mark