Re: which which

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:15:33PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:vinschen@redhat.com]
>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
>> > > "Morrison, John" wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > And here's the setup.hint:
>> > > > 
>> > > > sdesc: "Displays where a particular program in your 
>> path is located"
>> > > > ldesc: "Which takes one or more arguments. For each of 
>> its arguments
>> > > > it prints to stdout the full path of the executables
>> > > > that would have been executed when this argument had been
>> > > > entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for
>> > > > an executable or script in the directories listed in the
>> > > > environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as bash."
>> > > > prev: 1.5-1
>> > > > test: 2.13-1
>> > > > category: Base
>> > > > requires:
>> > > > 
>> > > > *note* that this version is in deliberately as test 
>> *GRIN*.  It's a
>> > > > complete change of code base so I think it warrants it 
>> :)  It also
>> > > > has no package dependences (but you have to have Cygwin 
>> installed to
>> > > > do anything with it ;)
>> > > > 
>> > > 
>> > > Then 1.5-1 is current and not previous.  You can have all 
>> three, prev,
>> > > curr and test in the same directory.
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > Good point - that makes sense.  Consider it changed :)  
>> will upload the
>> > replacement soon.
>> 
>> Please drop the `test' marker.  The GNU version becomes `curr',
>> my version either `prev' or dropped completely.  I'm going to drop
>> the `test' marker for the units package either.
>> 
>> You're the maintainer of `which' then, ok?  I just want to make clear
>> that I don't maintain `which' anymore after the change to the GNU
>> version.
>> 
>> And again, I don't have any personal problem with that.  I appreciate
>> that you're proactively moving over to the GNU version.  It makes
>> sense to use it, as you mentioned in your other posting.
>> 
>> Corinna
>
>OK I don't mind maintaining it as long as I can just forward questions to
>the proper people :) and it compiles OOTB (or very nearly :])
>
>I've changed the hints file to:
>
>prev: 1.5-1
>curr: 2.13-1
>
>I don't want to force folks to use this copy.

Please read http://cygwin.com/setup.html .  I have tried to make it very clear
there that you do not need to specify prev or curr if the version number works
correctly.  We really, really should let the computer do this kind of thing for
us.

So, the bottom line is that once the new version of which is uploaded, the
right thing will happen automatically.  The only setup.hint changes that would
be required are to the sdesc and ldesc.  I think you should make it clear that
this is the GNU version of this package.

cgf