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Re: cygport limitations
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:13:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygport limitations
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On Jun 21 13:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-06-21 13:10, Warren Young wrote:
> >On 6/21/2013 12:05, Warren Young wrote:
> >>With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources. We could email
> >>in the new cygport file instead of an RFU.
> >
> >...and patches.
> >
> >...and customized .hint files, if needed.
> >
> >Yeah, I guess sending the .src.tar.bz2 probably is effectively required.
>
> No, it's not. IIUC, the eventual goal should be something that
> looks like Ports git:
>
> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/
>
> together with a buildbot. Package maintainers would then commit
> their changes to a package's repo, which would then trigger a
> post-commit hook that would cause the package to be built with those
> changes.
Yes, that sounds good. The last discussions in my dept about setting up
a build system are long gone, so we have to start anew. This will take
some time (think unsavory things like budgets and so on...), but I'll
keep on it.
Corinna
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