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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Joe Linoff wrote:No, but the setup.html specifically refers to "experimentation" in step 9 of the "submitting a package" guidelines.
I am afraid that I am not sure what you mean by beta-test but I don't think that the program needs to be tested at all.
Any reason for sending this multiple times?
What everyone seems to be missing is this:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=ccdoc%2Fccdoc-0.8.39-1&grep=ccdoc
ccdoc is already part of the distribution.
That's what I mean by "beta test". I don't understand why you'd send a "ready for experimentation" message here. Do you see any other messages like that in this mailing list?
It is a new experience, sort of. This time I tried to the follow the http:://cygwin.com/setup.html instructions as closely as possible. In doing so, I ran across a number of things that appeared different than last time:
This version of ccdoc has been released to sourceforge and is already in the public domain.
The reason I submitted it to this group for approval was because I was bit confused by the cygwin submission documentation and wasn't sure whether I got the directory structures right in the tar files. Here is the directory structure for the binary release (ccdoc-08.41-1.tar.bz2):
Why are you having problems figuring out how to package this after having already provided it once before:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00270.html
I'm thoroughly confused. You are the package maintainer but you, and everyone else are treating this like a new experience.
cgf
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