On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: > > According to Charles Wilson on 10/12/2005 10:09 PM: > > > > > Within the README file > > > > > > > [t]here's no need to list... > > > > > > exactly which files are included within each of > > > > > > > ... the tarballs; in fact it's actually discouraged (because it always > > > > ends up getting out of date). > > > > Actually, the generic-build-script template recommends this. Are you > > proposing changing the template? > > Huh? I thought for sure I saw something to the effect of my statement > on the mailing list... > > Ah, here it is: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00198.html > > But my memory was faulty; no conclusion was reached in that thread.
Exactly. So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus? If so, I'll remove that section from the readme template. > > * templates/generic-readme: Add License, Language. List date > > when releases are made. > > * templates/generic-build-script: Fix typo when failing. > > I don't see anything wrong with the patch, but I'm not the keeper of the > g-b-s stuff anymore. I am, and I have that patch on my "to apply" list. > > Maybe the patch should be tweaked to recommend "cygcheck -l $PKG" > > instead of the current recommendation of an explicit list that is > > likely to get out of date. > > Yes, that's a pretty good idea. Agreed. Eric, if you plan to tweak the above patch, you should probably also mention <http://cygwin.com/packages/> as the place to get package content listings. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
