[ANNOUNCEMENT] boost 1.60.0-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  3 16:24, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 03/09/2016 11:39, David Stacey wrote:
> > On 02/09/16 23:48, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Every package has a source package containing the upstream sources,
> > > .cygport file, and patches used to build the binaries. You can
> > > actually install the source package with the setup installer, in which
> > > case they will be unpacked under /usr/src.
> > > 
> > > Or, wrt my packages (and that's it atm) the .cygport and patches are
> > > also online:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/cygwinports/boost
> > 
> > Could / should other package maintainers be using this repo?
> > 
> > Dave.
> 
> Why ?
> 
> We don't have currently a central repository.
> Every maintainer is using his/her own solution.

Note the thread starting at
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-03/msg00056.html,
especially https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-03/msg00061.html

Bottom line:  You're welcome to use the Cygwin or Cygwinports github
orgs, depending on the project you maintain.  But, this is a free
project, so if you don't want to, you don't have to.


Corinna

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