per-version hints proposal

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 05:17:00 GMT 2016


On 17/09/2016 08:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
>> Currently, the setup.hint file is shared between all versions.
>>
>> This means that manual intervention (by the package maintainer, or on
>> sourceware) is needed when versions have different dependencies.
>>
>> To automate this problem out of existence, I suggest replacing the
>> setup.hint file in an upload with a package-version-release.hint file.
>
> Since this is now moving into reality, the documentation in
>
> https://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> has become out-of-date.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

are we not yet missing an updated cygport release ?
Or a test one


Regards
Marco



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