From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23674 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2002 02:15:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 23667 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2002 02:15:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06ps.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.138) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2002 02:15:15 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([144.135.25.81]) by mta06ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta06ps May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id H2RNLD00.2WZ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:15:13 +1000 Received: from CPE-203-51-9-148.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([203.51.9.148]) by psmam05.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 107/13179424); 21 Sep 2002 12:15:13 Subject: Re: How to install packages... From: Robert Collins To: Bruce Alderson Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <1032573908.10491.8.camel@h24-69-127-23> References: <1032572115.9573.5.camel@h24-69-127-23> <20020921014740.GE23997@redhat.com> <1032573054.10475.2.camel@h24-69-127-23> <20020921015853.GG23997@redhat.com> <1032573908.10491.8.camel@h24-69-127-23> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2FFySCP3qj+/sE/0RIhk" Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:38:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1032574547.10933.97.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg01025.txt.bz2 --=-2FFySCP3qj+/sE/0RIhk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 977 On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 12:05, Bruce Alderson wrote: > > Your suggestion came out fine. It has just been suggested hundreds of > > times in the past. >=20 > Ah, I've been lurking on the list for ages - but not noticed the > request. Apologies. >=20 > Anyway, would it be worth submitting a patch for the functionality, or > is the dev rather closed? The dev is quite open, and patches are welcome. You should review http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html for development info. There are a couple of outstanding patches that I have in my queue, I'd suggest that you hold off a week or so so that I can flush them first, as they impact on the same functionality. There is a library GetOpt++ that is used for grabbing command line options. A semi-trivial use is to overload the non option elements and insert them into a vector. I've been meaning to add something like this into the library by default, but have been seriously time constrained for a while now. Rob --=-2FFySCP3qj+/sE/0RIhk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA9i9ZSI5+kQ8LJcoIRAnTfAKDPoA1ecuqYaeVkeTeLc4cxi8bbMACgij6t qL+kWTzVLFlRKfrCKzmU+8s= =Zsra -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2FFySCP3qj+/sE/0RIhk--