On Jun 21 10:34, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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
Pity. > and I believe there are also a couple of other people using > non-cygport packagers as well. Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better one. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
