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Re: [g-b-s patch] Re: Trial plotutils packages again
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > According to Charles Wilson on 10/12/2005 10:09 PM:
> >
> > > Within the README file
> > >
> > > > [t]here's no need to list...
> > >
> > > exactly which files are included within each of
> > >
> > > > ... the tarballs; in fact it's actually discouraged (because it always
> > > > ends up getting out of date).
> >
> > Actually, the generic-build-script template recommends this. Are you
> > proposing changing the template?
>
> Huh? I thought for sure I saw something to the effect of my statement
> on the mailing list...
>
> Ah, here it is:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00198.html
>
> But my memory was faulty; no conclusion was reached in that thread.
Exactly. So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus? If so, I'll
remove that section from the readme template.
> > * templates/generic-readme: Add License, Language. List date
> > when releases are made.
> > * templates/generic-build-script: Fix typo when failing.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with the patch, but I'm not the keeper of the
> g-b-s stuff anymore.
I am, and I have that patch on my "to apply" list.
> > Maybe the patch should be tweaked to recommend "cygcheck -l $PKG"
> > instead of the current recommendation of an explicit list that is
> > likely to get out of date.
>
> Yes, that's a pretty good idea.
Agreed. Eric, if you plan to tweak the above patch, you should probably
also mention <http://cygwin.com/packages/> as the place to get package
content listings.
Igor
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