----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gareth Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:38 AM Subject: Re: RFP (request for package) GNU indent
> Hallo Gareth, > > 2001-11-14 22:34:03, du schriebst: > > > If you both are, flip a coin or something. I really don't care who is > > the maintainer. Discuss it privately. Get back to the list with an > > answer. > > > Until then I'm not going to waste time looking at either set of > > tarballs. > > Oki doki, Robert has spoken;) indeed he has > > Well, I don't mind to *not* maintain the package, take a look at my > package please: > http://timtowtdi.topcities.com/cygwin/indent/ if it is still there. > > Take it or leave it or pack up a second one, basically yours is ok, > but the 'dir' file must go and a postinstall script is nice too. my reasons for packaging up indent was as practice mainly ... discover what things I got wrong so that the package that I really would like to maintain (nano) I would have better luck getting it done - ident is completely OOTB depends on nothing ... so it looked like an ideal target for a first go... and indeed i have learned a few things... like no dir files in the distribution ;) - so now I dont really care at all so long as i find out exactly the post-install script is supposed to be done - should of remembered to put that question in my post this morning ... but i was too sleepy... same reason why i didnt write a setup.hint... But your job looks better done, and if your willing to maintain it then I would say go for it ... I will get to work packaging up nano - which ofcourse was my original aim. Gareth