revise Package Contributor's Guide?

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Wed May 14 13:05:00 GMT 2014


> On 13/05/2014 20:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> Attached is a patch which moves the old method one and two to an archive
> >> page, and continues the boffo packaging example into the section for the
> >> cygport method.
> >>
> >> Other stuff left to do:
> >> - Change to link to the new upload process page
> >> - Correct paths on the package server from release/ to <arch>/release
> >> - Change the examples to use .xz compression
> >
> > Jon, I think this is a good start.  I suggest that you go ahead and move
> > this out, so we can continue improving the page from there.  Andrew
> 
> Thanks.  I think I applied this a few days ago.

OK, I see now that you did.  I think it's much better than before.

> BTW, if you want to write patches for the cygwin website (hint hint), I 
> think the runes to check out a local copy of it are:
> 
> "cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org:/cvs/cygwin co htdocs"

Sure.  I think it will be easier to make improvements now from a more
up-to-date guide.  I'll send patches here for you to apply.

Andrew



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