Re: [RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir

[David Stacey <drstacey at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

On 27/03/14 18:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > Actually, that is experimental code (based on a request from another
> > cygport user) that was accidentally shipped when I had to reroll the
> > source tarball for compatibility with F20/UnversionedDocDirs. Would
> > people like to see this done always, never, or only when cross-building?
>
> There hasn't been much comment on this.  Since it would be a visible 
> change for package maintainers, I would appreciate more of a 
> consensus.  Are there any objections to making the workdir always 
> arch-specific (IOW name-ver-rel.arch)?

I wrapped Cygport some time ago to give me a little extra functionality 
- for instance, for each package I maintain, it polls the project web 
page daily and does some regexp to see if a new version of the package 
had been released. If so, a new .cygport file is made and Cygport 
invoked to build, test and package the application.

So any change to Cygport would give me a little maintenance, but I could 
probably cope with a directory rename! Besides, some maintenance on my 
builder is a bit overdue: the tool is still uploading binaries to my 
Dropbox account and preparing [RFU] e-mails :-)

Dave.