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Re: [ITP] slang-2.2.2
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:06:35 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: [ITP] slang-2.2.2
--- Dom 14/11/10, Andy Koppe ha scritto:
> On 13 November 2010 14:03, Marco
> Atzeri wrote:
> >> > S-Lang is a multi-platform programmer's
> library
> >> designed to allow a developer to create robust
> >> multi-platform software. It provides facilities
> required by
> >> interactive applications such as display/screen
> management,
> >> keyboard input, keymaps, and so on.
> >> >
> > There are also other packages built in this way:
> >
> > slang-2.2.2-1-src.tar.bz2? ? ?
> ???source package name as upstream
> > slang-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2? ? ? ?
> ? ???empty package
> > libslang2-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2? ? ?
> ???dll package
> > libslang-devel-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2? ?
> development package
>
> Packaging looks ok as far as I could see, except:
>
> - The source package README should mention libonig-devel as
> a build dependency
I added all the devel dependency in the README
>
> - I don't like the sdescs, because "multi-platform
> programmer's
> library" applies to almost every library in the distro.
> Also, there
> are some extraneous spaces in the sdescs. And for similar
> library
> packages, the type of package is usually given in
> parentheses. So how
> about:
>
> slang: "S-Lang interpreter library (source)"
> libslang2: "S-Lang interpreter library (runtime)"
> libslang-devel: "S-Lang interpreter library (development)"
> slsh: "S-Lang shell"
Ok changed as suggested
>
> Also, how about nicking the first paragraph off the
> slang.org site for
> the ldescs?
>
> "S-Lang is a multi-platform programmer's library designed
> to allow a
> developer to create robust multi-platform software. It
> provides
> facilities required by interactive applications such as
> display/screen
> management, keyboard input, keymaps, and so on. The most
> exciting
> feature of the library is the slang interpreter that may be
> easily
> embedded into a program to make it extensible."
as lsdesc is not used anyware in my knowledge,
I usually just copied the sdesc.
In this case I used your suggestion and repacked all.
>
> In any case, it all built fine from the source package, and
> slrn built
> fine with it installed.
>
> Andy
>
To download again :
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/slang/index.html
Thanks
Marco