From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.1.9814cfd8f693 (TEST)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:27:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dea2560f-0012-0741-2f71-e9295c21891b@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0jdf4ml.fsf@Otto.invalid>
On 9/19/2021 2:42 AM, ASSI wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure the GNU coding standards have required
>> it since day 1. Automake generates tons of makefile real estate just
>> for this.
>
> I don't see that requirement in the current document:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html
>
> There is a requirement that the sources for such files are provided
> alongside the instruction on how to re-generate them.
I'm not sure how much we should worry about the GNU standards for release
tarballs. Those standards are written for GNU projects, which are supposed to
run on many different systems. The cygwin package runs only on Cygwin.
On the other hand, maybe we could do a better job of documenting how to rebuild
a package from source via cygport.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-19 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 20:33 Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
2021-09-18 15:33 ` Achim Gratz
2021-09-18 19:03 ` Chris Roehrig
2021-09-18 20:17 ` Ken Brown
2021-09-18 20:01 ` Denis Excoffier
2021-09-18 20:20 ` Ken Brown
2021-09-18 21:30 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-09-18 22:32 ` Ken Brown
2021-09-19 0:49 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-09-19 6:42 ` ASSI
2021-09-19 12:27 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-09-19 13:32 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-09-19 14:42 ` Ken Brown
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