Creating a custom Cygwin package server

Norton Allen allen@huarp.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 23 17:34:00 GMT 2006


Igor Peshansky wrote:
> "upset" was a private script that received too much attention at some
> point, and CGF decided that it wasn't worth making a public open-source
> project.  Also, "upset"'s functionality was much broader than just
> generating setup.ini.  Thus "genini", written for that express purpose.
> Yes, "genini" has no documentation, but, IIRC, CGF will consider patches
> to it (including documentation patches).  So, it has the potential of
> becoming *the* way of generating setup.ini files for custom package
> servers.  Anyone can help out.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
> HTH,

Thank you, that's a useful perspective. Hint well taken. I'll try
using it and see how much I can offer in the way of documentation.

-Norton


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