cygport upload command?

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 8 06:37:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-07-07 20:14, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Using cygport, I think that packaging has become quite easy now.

That's always been my goal. :-)

> Except for one thing: the upload step.  Maintainers still have to go
> through the procedure at
> https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-upload.html.  Although it's
> easier than the old manual upload process, it's still a little tedious and
> error-prone.
>
> Yaakov, would you consider adding an 'upload' command to cygport, that
> would handle the uploading details?  That would take away the last bit of
> manual work in a routine package update.

I'm a bit busy at the moment, but it sounds like a good idea to me.

> If you don't have the time or interest to add an upload command yourself,
> would you consider a patch?  I've spent some time looking through cygport
> code, and I might have time to give it a try, or maybe someone else would.

PTC.


Yaakov



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