From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13094 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2013 18:50:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13084 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jun 2013 18:50:50 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-pb0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f51.google.com) (209.85.160.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:50:49 +0000 Received: by mail-pb0-f51.google.com with SMTP id um15so8172362pbc.38 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:50:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.68.179.194 with SMTP id di2mr3789711pbc.203.1371840647539; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pm7sm5859030pbb.31.2013.06.21.11.50.45 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51C4A08E.1020907@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:31:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport limitations References: <51C0B08E.8080900@etr-usa.com> <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com> <51C1B299.1000701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <51C1F0F9.70601@etr-usa.com> <51C1FA8E.3000307@users.sourceforge.net> <51C33F38.4080103@etr-usa.com> <20130620181056.GA16923@calimero.vinschen.de> <51C495E1.9040901@etr-usa.com> <51C4970D.9090103@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <51C4970D.9090103@etr-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00586.txt.bz2 On 2013-06-21 13:10, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/21/2013 12:05, Warren Young wrote: >> With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources. We could email >> in the new cygport file instead of an RFU. > > ...and patches. > > ...and customized .hint files, if needed. > > Yeah, I guess sending the .src.tar.bz2 probably is effectively required. No, it's not. IIUC, the eventual goal should be something that looks like Ports git: http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/ together with a buildbot. Package maintainers would then commit their changes to a package's repo, which would then trigger a post-commit hook that would cause the package to be built with those changes. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple