On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:05:05PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/tetex >>> >>>Uploaded. Please send an announcement to cygwin-announce in some >>>hours. >> >> Btw, I took the day off yesterday and came back to a mailbox full of >> hundreds of complaints about the fact that the external-source lines >> in these setup.hint files was wrong. > >I'm sorry, I thought I took much care with it. There was one bug >report on my previous packaging (-2) regarding external source, and I >fixed that. > >If you'd tell me what's wrong, I'll fix it for -4. > >> I think I have to come up with a way for letting people know specifically >> when their packages have an error. I'll probably be adding a tag to >> setup.hint with an email address, like: Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > >Ah, and have error messages sent to (or cc'd to) the maintainer. That >might be a good idea, as long as users don't (ab)use those addresses >for questions that should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's my only worry. But then people would have to download the setup.hint file and inspect it. With any other project that would be too much work, but with Cygwin I can easily see someone doing just that because they "didn't know where else to send their problem". cgf
