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RE: pkgconfig
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,<cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:21:32 +1100
- Subject: RE: pkgconfig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 6:10 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: ITP: pkgconfig
>
>
> I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the cygwin distribution.
> Since we're starting to get a few packages that include .pc files
> (libxslt, libxml-2.0) we probably ought to have this. I've
> got version
> 0.10.0 (released 2002-02-02) ready to.
>
> I think it should go in latest/pkgconfig/ alongside the
> autotools (and
> not contrib).
>
> Votes?
For the package, yes. For the location, I think contrib. IMO *everything* thats not absolutely essential is contributed :}.
In fact, I'd go so far to suggest that we abolish latest and contrib altogether..
Rob