[ITP] Regina-REXX-3.8-1
Mark Hessling
mark@rexx.org
Tue Jun 17 11:51:00 GMT 2014
Hi Corrina,
Thanks for reviewing the proposal. Comments inline.
Cheers, Mark
On 17/06/14 18:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Jun 9 18:45, Mark Hessling wrote:
>> Regina-REXX is an implementation of ANSI Standard Rexx available on many
>> platforms.
>>
>> Regina-REXX is found on a number of Linux platforms, including Debian:
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/regina-rexx.html
>>
>> [...]
> Thanks for providing this package. I had a look and I have a few nits:
>
> - The DLLs in /usr/bin are not following the naming convention for
> Cygwin DLLs. They should start with the "cyg" prefix.
Will fix.
>
> - The files /usr/bin/rxtest1.dll and /usr/bin/rxtest2.dll look like
> stray files, which are not supposed to be distributed. They are
> not present in the Debian distro.
They are test extensions that go with the dynfunc.rexx demo program. I
can remove them and the associated demo program.
>
> - The Debian package is split into three subpackages, regina-rexx,
> libregina3, and libregina-dev. Apart from the fact that the devel
> package in Cygwin should be called libregina-devel, this layout
> seems to make a lot of sense. Wouldn't it be better to do this
> for the Cygwin package as well?
I was trying to make things simple for my first Cygwin package :-)
>
> - The package-specific directories are called "Regina-REXX", while on
> debian they are lowercase only, "regina-rexx". It's very much a
> matter of taste, but it might be nice to do this for Cygwin as well.
The Regina-REXX name was based on the RPM packaging name that was a
hangover from older RedHat and Fedora releases.
I'll split the build into separate packages as for Debian and follow
Debian's all lowercase naming as well.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
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