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Re: [ITP] Questions
- From: Max Bowsher <maxb1 at ukf dot net>
- To: Tim O'Callaghan <timo at dspsrv dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:13:29 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ITP] Questions
- Openpgp: id=C0F2C580
- References: <20051118110404.GB1920@ELSAMSW37164>
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Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about the delay with getting back to this stuff.
>
> I'd like to ask a few quick questions before i send my formal ITP's
> 1) should i send a separate ITP email for each one or one for all of them?
Choose based on whether it makes sense for them to be discussed as a
unit, or not. If packages are entirely unrelated, use separate emails.
Combine multiple packages into a single ITP mail if it makes little
sense for one to be added to the Cygwin distro without the other.
> 2) bundling - If i need to include a new tool/lib to support a particular feature
> such as String::ShellQuote or CVSps, should i bundle it in or separate it out?
> are there guidelines?
Separate packages are nicer, because then you can update the tool/lib
without updating the 'parent' package, and vice versa. Plus, there's
always the possibility another package might want to depend on the
tool/lib later.
> 3) If a package needs a specific tool to build it, such as asciidoc being needed for
> git documentation, does it also need to be supported or not? if so does it need
> to be bundled with the source, or as a separate package?
It really ought to be possible to rebuild any Cygwin package using only
software available as Cygwin packages, so a package would be preferable.
Separately - the answer to 2) applies equally here too.
Max.
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