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: <3BF79BF0.36BAFCC7@wapme-systems.de> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:30:56 +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: Robert Collins CC: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: no more package moratorium? References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BF44A45.9DA8A866@wapme-systems.de> <06bc01c16e2a$a7061500$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3BF44EFA.E5ABCA5B@wapme-systems.de> <06fc01c16e2d$7169d730$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3BF450A3.2FEFAB14@wapme-systems.de> <004201c16e3b$5afc1400$578208d2@itdomain.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > I'd very much doubt that Chris would be happy with http basic authentication > given it's security issues, unless wrapped in SSL. And doing that takes CPU > which I understand sources.redhat.com to be a little short on right now. right, SSL-enabling for webdav based uploading and package maintaince would be easily to implement. I agree with CPU time issue on sources.redhat.com, that's why I suggest an independant machine for the whole Cygwin project. > However, this is not my decision. I just think that a database with web > interface for maintaining this data is doing it the wrong way around. A web > interface to view the data yes, and Chris's package list allows that > trivially. A web interface to change, don't make sense to me. However, if > you can convince the other current maintainers, and are willing to > completely rewrite this when setup handles embedded meta data - such as rpm > has - then I won't object. Let's see how my prototype design will look like. I think it's the best way to "see" what we may do with it and then descide if it is considered usefull. 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/