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Re: cygport limitations


On 2013-06-21 13:10, Warren Young wrote:
On 6/21/2013 12:05, Warren Young wrote:
With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources.  We could email
in the new cygport file instead of an RFU.

...and patches.

...and customized .hint files, if needed.

Yeah, I guess sending the .src.tar.bz2 probably is effectively required.

No, it's not. IIUC, the eventual goal should be something that looks like Ports git:

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/

together with a buildbot. Package maintainers would then commit their changes to a package's repo, which would then trigger a post-commit hook that would cause the package to be built with those changes.


Yaakov


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