cygport limitations

[Warren Young]

On 6/21/2013 12:05, Warren Young wrote:
> On 6/20/2013 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>    If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change
>>    the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros.
>>    In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and
>>    the source archive.  The actual build for all supported platforms
>>    could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there.
>
> With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources.  We could email
> in the new cygport file instead of an RFU.

...and patches.

...and customized .hint files, if needed.

Yeah, I guess sending the .src.tar.bz2 probably is effectively required.

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