Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/07/07/01:02:28
Oh yeah -- I also renamed the packages from "ghostscript-6.51*" to
"ghostscript-6.51-1*".
--Chuck
Charles S. Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
>>> 2) I have also seen cgf specifically request that a contributor mail
>>> the files to him, and he has placed them on sourceware. (Don't just
>>> spam him with unsolicited tarballs, though -- wait for a request)
>>>
>>
>> Right. If you give me a URL so that I can download your tar balls, I
>> will
>> do that.
>
>
>
> I've already uploaded them to sourceware -- they're in ~cwilson. I
> checked them out -- they look okay to me. I converted them from .gz to
> .bz2 to save ~1.2M on download, and I also noticed that the gs.exe
> binary was not stripped.
>
> However, when I unpacked and stripped the gs.exe, it didn't really
> shrink the binary size enough to justify "re-owning" all the files in
> the tarballs as "cwilson" vs. "alcocer". So, I didn't adjust that.
>
>
>>
>> Otherwise send them to me, one per email message, binary and source.
>> I want
>> to make sure that the installation "conforms" to our loose standards.
>
>
>
> Since you expressed this interest, I didn't put the tarballs into
> contrib/ghostscript. Go ahead and take a look yourself, and then move
> 'em over after.
>
>
>> Until I set up some kind of cgi script for submitting these things, I
>> think that I would like to be the funnel for these requests for the time
>> being. Although any cygwin developer can substitute in a pinch.
>
>
>
> --Chuck
>
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