[Patch] g-b-s: New command: upgrade-self. (was: Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README)

2005-11-21 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:20:25 -0500 schreef Charles Wilson in 437EA809.30204atcwilson.fastmail.fm: : Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [new gbs features] : Well, the problem is, logging is a decorator: it decorates the existing : functions. Unless you want a whole new build-with-logging() function :

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Christian Franke
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [...] P.S. It'd be a different story if we were using an 'engine' with external overrides, like mingwports or cgf's netrel(?) -- then mods to the engine to provide new features would be distinct from the package-specific overrides. But gbs ain't like that.

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Franke wrote: What would you think about an autoconf-like approach generating a package-VER.sh script from some package.sh.in (yes, no version). Then fixes and new features will be added to only one generation tool (autogbs ?-)) which

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles Wilson wrote: I'd like to make a request: gbs is getting out of control with this feature and that feature added. Some of these tasks are NEVER going to be performed by anyone other than the primary maintainer: has anyone actually used 'foo.sh list' or 'foo.sh depends'? I use these

generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-18 Thread Christian Franke
[Resummited to cygwin-apps on request of Igor] Hi, the build-script of the smartmontools package creates the Cygwin/package-*.README file from srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README.in by replacing VER/REL with the current version/release numbers. This might be useful for other packages to

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Christian Franke wrote: the build-script of the smartmontools package creates the Cygwin/package-*.README file from srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README.in by replacing VER/REL with the current version/release numbers. This might be useful for other packages to avoid extra editing of README

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: Christian Franke wrote: the build-script of the smartmontools package creates the Cygwin/package-*.README file from srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README.in by replacing VER/REL with the current version/release numbers. This might be useful