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Re: [g-b-s patch] Re: Trial plotutils packages again


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:


According to Charles Wilson on 10/12/2005 10:09 PM:


Within the README file


[t]here's no need to list...

exactly which files are included within each of



... the tarballs; in fact it's actually discouraged (because it always
ends up getting out of date).

Actually, the generic-build-script template recommends this. Are you proposing changing the template?

Huh? I thought for sure I saw something to the effect of my statement on the mailing list...

Ah, here it is:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00198.html

But my memory was faulty; no conclusion was reached in that thread.


Exactly.  So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus?  If so, I'll
remove that section from the readme template.


I consense: pkg listings should be removed from generic-README...



Maybe the patch should be tweaked to recommend "cygcheck -l $PKG"
instead of the current recommendation of an explicit list that is
likely to get out of date.

Yes, that's a pretty good idea.


Agreed.  Eric, if you plan to tweak the above patch, you should probably
also mention <http://cygwin.com/packages/> as the place to get package
content listings.

...with OR without the addition of a recommendation to use cygcheck -l or /packages/. Just so I can stop hand editing those stupid lists. :-)


--
Chuck


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