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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
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> Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package.  It sounds
>>> like it
>>> would get enough votes.
>> That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission
>> requirements and process. Unless someone would like to volunteer as the
>> MinTTY package maintainer?
> 
> Usually those who write programs especially for Cygwin are their own
> package maintainers, for obvious reasons.  But as this looks quite
> interesting, I quickly put together a package for Ports which could get
> you started:
> 
> http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/apps/mintty/
> 
> Check out this directory, then use cygport to build it.  If you're new
> to cygport, the package README is a must-read.

Thank you very much! Yep, I'm entirely new to this, so what with those 
pesky New Year festivities taking away valuable hacking time it might be 
a little while to familiarise myself with this packaging lark. :)

Andy


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