This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: a2ps


Great.  I think this is good to go.  As it has the necessary votes
already, IIRC, can someone please upload it?
	Igor

On Thu, 8 May 2003 David_Hudson@capgroup.com wrote:

> Thanks Igor. I have fixed the typo in the readme and added the strip step.
> The new files can be downloaded from:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1.tar.bz2
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/setup.hint
>
> Dave
>
>  From:    Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
>  To:      David Hudson/INV/CG/CAPITAL@CG
>  cc:      cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>  Sent by: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
>  Subject: Re: a2ps (Was Re: [UPDATE] Pending package status (06 May 2003))
>  Date:    05/07/2003 02:01 PM
>  Please respond to cygwin-apps
>
> Yes.  Turns out I downloaded it, but got distracted by real work and
> forgot to review it.  Sorry about that.
>
> The CRLF issue and the permission bits were indeed fixed, in both the
> binary and the source packages.
>
> There's a minor typo in the readme:
>
>   This will build, creat teh binary package and re-create the source package.
>                    ^^^^^^^^^
> I'm still a bit wary of the "all" step in the build script, in that it
> will remove the source directory, but that's my personal feeling, and
> the consensus here seems to be to leave it the way it is...
>
> However, your build script seems to be missing the "strip" step (compared
> to, say, a similar script in cygutils).  FYI,
>
> $ ls -l a2ps.exe
> -rwx--x--x    1 igor     Administ   890050 Apr 16 12:19 a2ps.exe*
> $ strip a2ps.exe
> $ ls -l a2ps.exe
> -rwx--x--x    1 igor     Administ   306688 May  7 16:56 a2ps.exe*
>
> Otherwise this looks good.
>            Igor
>
> On Wed, 7 May 2003 David_Hudson@capgroup.com wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Both issues that were raised (CRLF and exec bits) had been rectified in
> the
> > final package posted on 4/16.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
> > ------------------------
> >
> > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:49:10AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >David,
> > >
> > >FYI, the two comments below are really addressed to the general
> > >cygwin-apps audience, not you personally.
> > >
> > >Hmm, first off, the first link below (underlined) refers to aspell,
> > >rather than a2ps (Elfyn?).
> > >
> > >Secondly, I thought
> > ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00273.html> (the fourth link)
> > >was a review (at least, it was written as such).
> > >If that's unacceptable, what constitutes a formal review?  Or do I
> > >simply need to update it for the latest posted release?
> >
> > That was certainly a formal enough review.  I didn't see any indication
> > that your issues were rectified; at least not in that thread.  The CRLF
> > issue, at least, deserves repackaging.
> >
> > cgf
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have uploaded the (hopefully) final version of the a2ps-4.12-1 package.
> > I used Max's suggestions on the build file to keep it as similar as
> > possible with the build file in the Package Guidelines.
> >
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1.tar.bz2
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/a2ps-4.12-1-src.tar.bz2
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/res1xzsj/cygwin/setup.hint
> >
> > Thanks for all the feedback on this process. I'll start looking at
> > a2ps-4.13.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave

-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
  -- Leto II


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]