RE: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-29 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Eric Blake Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 14:19 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2 ... Perhaps unspoken, but I prefer suffix-less executables. Then I don't have to care whether they are binary or interpreted scripts. Besides, having a suffix makes

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
david sastre wrote: New package makeself-2.1.5-2 has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread David Sastre
It looks like there is not a strict policy defined, anyway: $ ls /usr/bin | egrep \.(pl|py|sh|rb) | wc -l 161 Regards. 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee...@veritech.com: david sastre wrote: New package makeself-2.1.5-2 has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:33:03PM +0200, David Sastre wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057 at : ^^^ Ouch...! There is something _evil_ in those webmails. Sorry. *goes to write 100 times PCYMTNQREAIYR in the blackboard* --

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057 at : FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source and the cygport None of them involve too much work. So now I would like to know (from some

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057 at : FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source and the cygport None of them

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Eric Blake wrote: On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, Sastre wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source and the

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:19:27PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein: FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:44:34PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. That is true: From: Lee Maschmeyer lee_maschmeyerX It was another Lee... First

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-21 Thread david sastre
New package makeself-2.1.5-2 has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself

New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-21 Thread david sastre
New package makeself-2.1.5-2 has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself