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Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-3
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 06:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-3
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> James, could you please do me a favour and restructure your ftp
> directory so that you put the files into a hirarchy, the same way
> as it is on cygwin.com, please? Instead of having a plain directory
> which contains also the octave-doc-2.1.71-3.tar.bz2 and the
> octave-doc.hint file, please create a subdir octave-doc which contains
> the octave-doc-2.1.71-3.tar.bz2 and a setup.hint file. This way I can
> upload by a simple wget/cpio, while as you did above, I had to create
> the subdirs manually and also manually I had to rename all the new
> hint files. That's unnecessary work, if you ask me.
>
Sure. Makes perfect sense. Besides, if I use the new genini tool to test
prior to upload, I will have already performed that arranging anyway.
Thanks much.
jrp