Re: Proposal singular-3.0.0-1

[Oliver Wienand <wienand at rhrk dot uni-kl dot de>]

Hello,

> The description looks OK... have you created packages via the
> guidelines at http://cygwin.com/setup.html ?

Yes, I have created some packages. They are at our ftp-server:

ftp://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/pub/Math/Singular/devel/WIN/cygwin

There is a small repository only containing the packages.

> How about the extensions?
> I would include the XEmacs interface with the base package, but strip 
> out the winhelp file to be available via seperate download.
> And put the X stuff in a seperate package. But not named like ESingular, 
> better like Singular-<xxx>

I have made the following packges:

singular-base   (Executeables)
singular-share  (Libraries)
singular-help   (HTML Help and info)
singular-surf   (Compiled surf programm)

And one further, which is only there for the repository

singular-helper (depends of singular-* and installs shortcuts)

This server is made up for testing but maybe we want to use it also to 
distribute Singular in a easy install routine. I hope this is okay with 
the cygwin project. A short description of the process can be found at

http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wienand/singular

Btw: The feature to select severel mirrors is great for such an application.

> I don't think ntl/doc/*.txt needs to be there, since they are the same 
> as the headers.
> several hardcoded /usr/local/bin/ paths should be fixed (latex)

I am sorry. Till now I only have made binaries packages. I am reallybusy 
with this stuff. Is it okay, if I add the sources later? They compile 
out of box from the cvs today quite good, but I want to make some 
improvements.

Sincerely,

Oliver Wienand