Re: setup.exe for 1.7 and patches?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> Starting a new thread from an email from about a month ago...
>
> I've got a series of three patches from Reini as follows:
>
> For reference:
> The current three command-line patches at the tracker are all against 
> current HEAD and should applied in the following order:
>
> rurban@reini /usr/src/cygwin-apps/setup
> $ quilt series
> patches/6689-goossens-rev1.patch
> patches/6688-switch-p.patch
> patches/854-peschko-cmdlines.patch
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6689
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6688
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=854
>
> but the patches result in compile errors against the current
> HEAD of setup.exe
>
> So, if I really want to help build and test setup to allow
> specifying package names on the command line, where do
> I start?

You start by discussing setup.exe development where you've already sent
email - the cygwin-apps mailing list.

As far as the compilation errors are concerned, weren't you going to try
to get the patches working?  It seems like you need to fix the
compilation errors if you want to help.  If you can't fix compilation
problems then it isn't clear how you are going to help building and
testing setup, considering that you are trying to add new functionality.

But this really should be continued in the cygwin-apps mailing list.

cgf

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