From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62790 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2017 20:01:47 -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 62776 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2017 20:01:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:780, H*r:Unknown X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from Unknown (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:01:45 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzTNm-0005mC-1x for cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:01:34 +0200 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <0756319a-94e5-d3d3-507a-2aee9418aca6@dronecode.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 > > This patch (originally by Achim Gratz) adds a mechanism for generating > packages marked as 'test' as described in [1]. > > I'm not committed to any of the details, but I would like to get > something with this functionality in, so tell me how you'd like it > implemented and I'll do it... > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-12/msg00005.html Cygport needs a way to specify which versions are prev, curr, and test in cygport files. David Rothenberger and I each proposed a method [1,2]. It doesn't matter much to me which method is picked, but it's definitely a missing feature. [1]https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-06/msg00032.html [2]https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-06/msg00038.html