Re: Figlet-2.2 Experimental

[Carl Ebrey <carl at ebrey dot net>]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Carl,
>
> Am 2001-12-08 um 11:07 schriebst du:
>
> > So, does anyone fancy pointing me in the right direction perhaps?
>
> Ok, a complete setup.hint look like this (the text is just an example):
>
> sdesc: "creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters"
> ldesc: "FIGlet is a program that creates
> large characters out of ordinary screen
> characters.   FIGlet can create characters
> in many different styles and can kern and
> `smush' these characters together in
> various ways.  FIGlet output is generally
> reminiscent of the sort of `signatures'
> many people like to put at the end of
> e-mail and UseNet messages."
> category: text
> requires: cygwin
>
> I'm not sure if the quoting in the desctription is absolutely
> correct now, look at a recent setup.ini, the packages automake
> and autoconf have also a long description with lots of quotes
> in the text.
>
> More infos at the website: http://cygwin.com/setup.html
> To classify it as test version the entry:
> test: version
> is needed, but since it gets not installed by default this isn't
> needed.
>
> The versioning is important too, to be a cygwin package it should
> have the extension -x after basic version: figlet-2.2-1.tar.bz2
>
Right, I think I get all that ;)  Thanks to you both for helping me so
far.  I'll update the setup.hint file that I have when I get back to work
on Monday and I'll rename the tarballs.  I'll then upload them to
somewhere where you can pull them down and have a look shall I?

Cheers,

Carl