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Re: Building from source packages
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 15:44:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: Building from source packages
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- References: <e04b604a-3e2a-80b2-5653-b1eeac1ae395 at dronecode dot org dot uk>
> * a few packages mistakenly use DEPENDS
>
> A few packages mistakenly use DEPENDS rather than DEPEND, which is
> silently ignored
I'm surprised none of them are mine. It confuses me every time that I have to
use REQUIRES, but DEPEND instead of DEPENDS. I have to go look it up again once
or twice a month.
To minimize the cognitive load on maintainers' brains, I humbly propose that
cygport honor both REQUIRE and REQUIRES, and DEPEND and DEPENDS.
Or it that's too ugly, make them both of the same form, i.e. REQUIRE and DEPEND.
A one-time backwards-incompatible change that would make things easier in the
future.
Andrew