On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. >> > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and >> > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms >> > could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there. >> >> That would be cool. Let's do it! > >Uhm, that was a projection into the ideal future. No provisions have >been made yet. We need to set up a central repository like Yaakov's >cygwinports git repo and a central build mechanism. The first we can >probably shamelessly copy from Yaakov and set up over the next few >months, the second needs a bit of hacking.
I'm not sure if this reminder is needed but, I'm not switching to cygport and I believe there are also a couple of other people using non-cygport packagers as well. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
