Make a contrib or extra directory ?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> I notice that a lot of small applications are being proposed
> and added when they have 3 votes.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to have a contrib or extra directory
> with relaxed requirements (maybe just a vote) before Cygwin has
> 1000 official applications, making it very hard to go through
> in setup ?

I think so far this suggestion in its various forms keeps its regular
"posted once in 7 months" schedule...  Previous incarnations are at
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00306.html> and
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00363.html>.

Now that we have a resizeable chooser and support for GPG-signing packages
in the generic-build-script, the results of the 2002 discussion might not
be too radical or hard to implement...  If we only had some volunteers... ;-)
	Igor
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