[ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Tim O'Callaghan
Hi, Sorry about the delay with getting back to this stuff. I'd like to ask a few quick questions before i send my formal ITP's 1) should i send a separate ITP email for each one or one for all of them? 2) bundling - If i need to include a new tool/lib to support a particular feature such as

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tim O'Callaghan on 11/18/2005 4:04 AM: I'd like to ask a few quick questions before i send my formal ITP's 1) should i send a separate ITP email for each one or one for all of them? If they are for related packages, one email will do

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim O'Callaghan wrote: Hi, Sorry about the delay with getting back to this stuff. I'd like to ask a few quick questions before i send my formal ITP's 1) should i send a separate ITP email for each one or one for all of them? Choose based on

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Tim O'Callaghan
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:57:14AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 3) If a package needs a specific tool to build it, such as asciidoc being needed for git documentation, does it also need to be supported or not? if so does it need

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: I was thinking about the current distro method, its probably a stupid question, but i was wondering why don't you support, or have tools to convert rpm/dpkg type build packages? Cygwin seems to have native rpm dpkg tools and most

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Tim O'Callaghan
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:05:07AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: I was thinking about the current distro method, its probably a stupid question, but i was wondering why don't you support, or have tools to convert rpm/dpkg type

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:48:34PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:05:07AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:14:59PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: I was thinking about the current distro method, its probably a stupid question, but i was wondering

Re: [ITP] Questions

2005-11-18 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:57:14AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: 3) If a package needs a specific tool to build it, such as asciidoc being needed for git documentation, does it also need to be supported or not? if so does