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Re: cygport: allow patch files to omit PN-PV-PR?
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:36:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygport: allow patch files to omit PN-PV-PR?
- References: <504CBBFD.5040406@cornell.edu>
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 11:55 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> I like the most recent cygport change in Git that allows one to omit
> PN-PV-PR from .cygport file names. Have you thought about doing
> something similar for the .src.patch and .cygwin.patch files? The
> advantage would be the avoidance of file renames, as with the .cygport
> change.
Not really, because I don't recommend maintaining patches in the form
of .src.patch and .cygwin.patch. After making code patches, I copy
the .src.patch into one or more patches with appropriate names, which I
then add to PATCH_URI and keep in version control. As
for .cygwin.patch, with automatic setup.hint generation and no need for
Cygwin READMEs, there isn't much of a need for CYGWIN-PATCHES anymore.
Yaakov