automated PPL

[Daniel Reed]

On 2003-11-17T11:51-0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
) On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote:
) > If anyone *would* prefer to have an online form to generate the message to
) > cygwin-apps (and possibly the message to cygwin-announce once the update has
) > been accepted), that's certainly something I can look into as well.

Well, I hammered something out last night and came up with
http://shell.n.ml.org/n/cygwin-apps/

It tries to confirm all package-specific information (pulling defaults from
setup.ini), and will craft compatible messages for new package proposals,
updates to new vendor versions, corrections for broken packages, or
announcements to cygwin-announce.

It does not do anything but help you construct an email; the first three
types go to cygwin-apps and can be processed by the extractor script, and
the latter goes to cygwin-announce and is similar to recent messages. The
From:, To:, and Subject: are configurable.


This is just a proof of concept, but should be usable for the time being.

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