Andrew Schulman writes: > I feel as though I've once again missed some important discussion about > package > maintenance. Your question implies that we can now upload packages with arch > "noarch". Is that true?
Meanwhile it has become true, although Jon and Yaakov are still in the early stages of adding support for that. But my posting really was meant as a demonstration that there are substantial gains to be had from going to this layout and that therefore it'd be worthwile adding official support for it. > I remember a discussion of this question a year or two ago, where IIRC the > result was that we wouldn't have any "noarch" packages. Did that change? If > so, I seem to have missed the discussion here. It should be worth a > "HEADSUP". Yes, this needs to be announced soonish (Yaakov?) as otherwise some folks will be a bit surprised to see their mirror scripts not working anymore. > If this is what's happened, we need to update https://cygwin.com/setup.html > with > the new information (the page is overdue for an overhaul anyway). In > particular > I wonder if cygport is ready to handle the change. AFAIK, not quite yet. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds
