Retiring setup.hint

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 25 21:46, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/10/2017 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Oct 25 20:42, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > 
> > > I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint some
> > > time shortly after 2017-11-18.
> > > 
> > > This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which, stopped
> > > generating these files, so if you're using cygport >= 0.23.0, no action is
> > > needed.
> > > 
> > > Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for more than
> > > 6 months [2].
> > > 
> > > After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the
> > > cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as per
> > > [3].
> > > 
> > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html
> > > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html
> > > [3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
> > 
> > I'm still generating setup.hint files for the Cygwin package itself.
> > 
> > Please have a look into cygwin's cygport file.  Do we have an *easy*
> > replacement for creating test releases from cygport in the meantime?
> > 
> > Ideally I can simply call cygport with a --test parameter or some such
> > to create a test release.
> 
> See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00017.html which contains
> my patch to do this, and an offer to implement this in whatever way is
> acceptable to Yaakov.

Looks good to me.

> > As long as we don't have that, I'm inclined to veto the idea to drop
> > setup.hint.

Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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