Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BF3C5A2.7F7907B8@wapme-systems.de> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:39:46 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Wapme Systems AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0322b (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: "Gerrit P. Haase" Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up References: <5314439342.20011114212805@familiehaase.de> <3BF2D797.B0481987@ece.gatech.edu> <20011114211942.GB9636@redhat.com> <1119104841.20011114224550@familiehaase.de> <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Having ports/packages "live" on a separate site for a while, until the > ports "settle down" enough for the porter/maintainer to be confident of > them, is okay. I did that for a year or two with cygutils. Eventually, > I migrated the "important" packages over to the new "official" dist. I think is is the target of all of us (package maintainers). Offer packages and then get them cleanly to the "official" distribution. The only point I have to critic is the lack in tools and mechanisms to maintain the packages "on the distribution" (site). I would like to see an integrated web site that focuses on two aims: 1) supporting the (new) users the best way to get what they want, aka "has someone ported foobar already to Cygwin?!" 2) support the pacakge maintainers, i.e. by having a reference of all used files and possible file conflicts within a database on the site. A package maintainer should be able to "check-in" a new release and roll a regression test on it before it gets publicaly available and integrated to setup.ini. > Some stuff cannot be distributed from the cygwin mirror system, for > legal or political reasons (think cygipc). [BTW, Gerrit, I have NO > problems with you mirroring the cygipc package. Go ahead. But don't try > to submit it for inclusion in the official dist, 'cause it won't be > accepted] why is that? Stipe tolj@wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: info@wapme-systems.de Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/