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Re: cygport limitations


On 6/20/2013 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
   If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change
   the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros.
   In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and
   the source archive.  The actual build for all supported platforms
   could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there.

With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources. We could email in the new cygport file instead of an RFU.

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