non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 25 04:30:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:17:51PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote:
>On 2003-11-24T11:01-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote:
>) >For now it's just in my records. Even if it is made publicly tunable, I
>) >imagine it will be made outside of setup.hint (since that is for setup's
>) >benefit).
>) We could decide on a comment convention for setup.hint that could be
>) used for some other tool to process:
>)
>) #!binary only
>
>That works, or maybe even #!binary-only and either let multiple flags be on
>one line or allow flags to have arguments.

Good point.

>	sdesc: "Frobdicates kernel sources"
>	category: Devel
>	requires: cygwin
>	#!maintainer "Daniel Reed <nmlorg@example.net>"
>	#!alert-maintainer

I think I like this one more since it is closer to the way setup.hint already
operates.

cgf



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