I'm thinking someone with computer knowledge, but not necessarily cygwin knowledge, would have no trouble finding the setup.hint files at each mirror site. Is there any reason the mirrors need to have a copy of setup.hint? Is there any easy way they could be kept off of the mirrors? They'd still be available in the -src files.
Here's a thought - if the package checking script becomes a reality, perhaps one of its tasks could be to extract the setup.hint info from the -src tarball, and put the info into setup.ini... Count me among those that don't like the idea of a public package<->maintainer list. I agree that we should put our own address into .README if we want, or just [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Christopher Faylor wrote: > Robert suggested adding a field to setup.hint which would never show up > in setup.ini, like: 'Maintainer". So now the setup.hint requires a Maintainer field. Fine. (Of course, someone could *directly* access ftp://my.favorite.mirror/pub/cygwin/latest/ncurses/setup.hint, but if they KNEW enough to do that, then we're obviously not talking about a newbie...)
