On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:24:42PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 16:19, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>The long term goal for source downloads is to let them be selected > >>>separately from the binaries, either as separate source packages, or as > >>>a completely independent spin control where the current src box it. > >> > >>Yay! > > > >Now, if only someone would code this. > > The separate source packages should be relatively easy. They could > just be another package, right? So you'd see something like: > > cygwin-1.3.3-1 > cygwin-1.3.3-1-src > > I guess you could have a separate "Source" category, too, although > that would complicate setup.ini parsing a bit.
That part wouldn't, you'd simply put the package into the Source category. > You could also have something like a "View Source" button which toggles > whether source was selected or not although that might just be too > many buttons... Thats one of the issues. Here's my off-top-of-head list.... 1) For GPL and user friendliness, I should be able to pick a package foo, and get the source for it, for any version I can download at a given time. 2) Source's shouldn't clutter the display for the average user. 3) Source's have their own dependencies, and they should be (optionally) grabbed automatically. I.E. grabbing vim-src grabs ncurses-dev for the headers. 4) Sources can be associated with more than one package. So grabbing the source for any of ncurses, libncurses, ncurses-dev downloads the same source. 5) Any .spec/dsc/diff files should also be associated automatically. So theres a bunch of little tasks that need to be done. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
