From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28410 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2001 02:59:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28315 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 02:59:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO femail43.sdc1.sfba.home.com) (24.254.60.37) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 02:59:39 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu ([24.5.105.154]) by femail43.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011116025938.GHUI13387.femail43.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ece.gatech.edu>; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:59:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3BF48136.5030509@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up References: <5314439342.20011114212805@familiehaase.de> <3BF2D797.B0481987@ece.gatech.edu> <20011114211942.GB9636@redhat.com> <1119104841.20011114224550@familiehaase.de> <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu> <20011115100549.A1695@kahikatea.pohutukawa.gen.nz> <3BF450CE.1010706@ece.gatech.edu> <20011116005111.GA12669@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>But latest and contrib are going away, AFAIRC. Chris has a grand >>refactoring scheme where the packages actually live in a tree structure >>related to the primary category (Net, Base, Lib, Graphics, etc) >> >>right, Chris? >> > > I did talk about that once, didn't I. > > The current setup.ini builder can't deal with that but it would be trivial > to add, of course. > > I was going to give the new version of setup.exe some time before I made > any other changes, though. And, I have some infrastructure work that > I want to do too, like improving the cygwin packages web page. Naturally. In your original emails on this subject, it was clear that (to me) that this was a tuit issue. I just wanted to point out that the idea of using "well installed.db sez it came from 'contrib' so it must be official" was not forward-looking enough. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/