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 -- 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
