From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1077 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2001 16:18:22 -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 Received: (qmail 672 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 16:16:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ee.gatech.edu) (130.207.225.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 16:16:37 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu (medulla.ibb.gatech.edu [128.61.133.203]) by mail.ee.gatech.edu (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fB6GGFkc013020; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:16:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C0F99CF.3010309@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:24:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen CC: Robert Collins , "Gerrit P. Haase" Subject: Re: experimental texmf packages References: <878764062.20011128173421@nyckelpiga.de> <4434079433.20011129221637@familiehaase.de> <9517228633.20011203135833@familiehaase.de> <3C0D8535.D67735D1@ece.gatech.edu> <00d501c17d93$1936c990$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3C0E5FE5.9040908@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Charles Wilson writes: > > >>>different naming convention, ie foo-1.1-cyg.tar.gz? >>> >>probably too late -- non-maintainers who want to build it personally >>should just download and follow the instructions. >> > > Hmm, that sounds awfully unscriptable :-) Am I the only non-maintainer > that uses a script? You're in bsd-ports "make world" mode, I see. I don't think that is a goal, yet. *OUR* concern is "make cygwin work". Cross environments are nice -- but do you really need a cygwin-target man.exe in your cross environment? (no, you don't -- unless you're the man maintainer and are building the man package for official distribution). Cross environments really only need the devel tools, and the libraries. > Now for something constructive. What if I fix my scripts to do the > new convention, and we run that over the archive to rebuild everything? Be my guest...but remember those "corner cases" I mentioned? square peg, round hole? Go back and read the other thread for some of the examples. It is my contention that some (many?) of our ports are not yet ready for autobuilding. (cf. jpeg, ncurses, readline, gettext, ...) It's going to take detailed knowledge of an individual package -- either to turn it into a round peg, or custom-develop a script. Suggestion: pick ONE package. convert it. present it to the maintainer and say "Hey, isn't this cool? Would you like to package up the next official release of XXX this way? I'll help convert your other packages too..." And then move on to the next maintainer's packages... --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/