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Re: [ITA] _autorebase
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:54:56 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ITA] _autorebase
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On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 18:16 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 17 18:01, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > In fact if we do that, I'd like to require either new releases for the
> > packages using /etc/rebase/dynpath.d or alternatively that they get an
> > additional package that drops just this file (if a full release _now_
> > would be too much work) and the requisite change to setup.hint to have a
> > dependency added so that this new package gets pulled in.
>
> That should be fine, given the rather short list of affected maintainers:
>
> octave Marco Atzeri
> perl Reini Urban/Achim Gratz ?!?
> php Yaakov Selkowitz
> python Jason Tishler/Yaakov Selkowitz
> R Marco Atzeri
> ruby Yaakov Selkowitz
Some of these -- php and python at least -- do not have separate 'site'
and 'vendor' extension directories, so adding a directory entry for
these would pick up DLLs that are already registered with setup's
database. How would you avoid duplicates (and hence wasted imagebase
space) in this case?
Yaakov