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Re: Package Proposal: Xcoral


Hello Igor,

>> Why?

> I'm thinking of some people who'd want to use non-Cygwin tools to look at
> and debug the package source.  NTEmacs comes to mind.

This is not a Cygwin application and I don't want to support it.  And
besides that, you can still look at the source, though you should know
how managed mounts are working.


>> But then the cygwin xcoral maintainer tobe needs to wait until a new
>> upstream release is available?  Using managed mounts solves this issue
>> in the best of all possible ways how to do s.th. like this.

> Well, I guess a managed mount is okay as an interim measure until the
> upstream package has the renamed file.  But I'm uneasy about using this as
> a standard way to build a package.

Not as standard, probably this issue will be resolved in future
releases if the upstream maintainer is not one if those guys;)


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