First time packager questions

[Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)]

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Ralph Hempel wrote:
> Hmmm - I never thought to look there, apparently you've
> done a lot of the work already :-)
> 
> And looking at the ports list, it seems that all the libs I
> was hoping to port over are already there!

I'm not exactly sure what you're looking to do with lua, but there are a
number of packages there.

> Is there any value at all in building a package targeted for
> the "official" Cygwin setup?

Absolutely.  The only reason lua isn't in the distro is because neither
I or anyone else have taken the time to get it in.

> And do you need some help in getting the Lua stuff in ports
> updated to the latest versions?

I've been focusing on the X11 upgrade recently.  I'm aware that lua
itself was bumped to 5.1.4; when you manage this many packages, it
doesn't take long for things to pile up.  Fortunately cygport makes it
much easier.

> PS. A brief answer here is OK, and then I'll move the discussin
>     to cygwin-ports if it turns out that's where we're going

Perhaps that would be best for now.


Yaakov

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