cygwin-setup-dev (was: RE: Create a cygwin-setup mailing list?)

[Earnie Boyd]

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>>Implementation details are very important.
>>
>>But setup.exe development discussions of the implementation details
>>isn't giving me important data.  AFAIC, I don't even read the setup
>>discussions anyway.
> 
> 
> So... it isn't a problem for you, right?  Just a bit more wear on the "Delete"
> key. ;-)  Setup discussion has been very sporadic historically.  The recent
> spate of posts is AFAICT mainly due to my latest patch and a flurry of activity
> on the security stuff.  This too shall pass.
> 

Setup development discussion is the larger number of posts to this list. 
  It would put all setup development discussion in a category of it's 
own to go search for.  Only those interested in forwarding the setup.exe 
development would only need subscribe keeping the number of forwards 
that Redhat needs to send down to a minimum.

> 
>> Moving the implementation detail discussion of
>>setup.exe to a different list would be a big benefit.
> 
> 
> For who and why?

You for one (even though you don't think so), me for another, Redhat for 
another, the user of a search engine for another and the reader of 
archives the most.

> I tend to agree with Rob (for once ;-)), I don't think it'd
> benefit anybody, and I'd think a list dedicated to "discussing packaging issues
> regarding applications that are distributed with the Cygwin DLL" would be the
> appropriate place for discussion of the development which directly results in
> those "packaging issues".
> 

I tend to think you just don't want to subscribe to YAL.

> But it's no hair off my %&* regardless.  I'd suggest though that "cygwin-apps"
> be renamed to something more descriptive of its purpose, e.g.
> "cygwin-packaging", "cygwin-app-packaging", etc.  It'd reduce the incidence of
> folks wandering in here looking for help with apps.
>

Sounds good to me.

> Actually, I'd suggest "cygwin-setup-dev" instead of "cygwin-setup" for similar
> reasons.
> 

This does too.

Earnie.