> Having ports/packages "live" on a separate site for a while, until the > ports "settle down" enough for the porter/maintainer to be confident of > them, is okay. I did that for a year or two with cygutils. Eventually, > I migrated the "important" packages over to the new "official" dist.
I think is is the target of all of us (package maintainers). Offer packages and then get them cleanly to the "official" distribution. The only point I have to critic is the lack in tools and mechanisms to maintain the packages "on the distribution" (site). I would like to see an integrated web site that focuses on two aims: 1) supporting the (new) users the best way to get what they want, aka "has someone ported foobar already to Cygwin?!" 2) support the pacakge maintainers, i.e. by having a reference of all used files and possible file conflicts within a database on the site. A package maintainer should be able to "check-in" a new release and roll a regression test on it before it gets publicaly available and integrated to setup.ini. > Some stuff cannot be distributed from the cygwin mirror system, for > legal or political reasons (think cygipc). [BTW, Gerrit, I have NO > problems with you mirroring the cygipc package. Go ahead. But don't try > to submit it for inclusion in the official dist, 'cause it won't be > accepted] why is that? Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- 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/
