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Re: Maintainers wanted
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 12:46:34PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>>>>>> "cgf" == Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>cgf> What I would like to do is break each of these up into its own
>cgf> tar file and then provide the maintainer with a way to upload cgf>
>updated tar files into an incoming area.
>
>Wouldn't a CVS repository be superior in every respect to uploading
>tarballs? It would be more efficient for the maintainer, have a
>revision history, make it easier for others to monitor and
>contribute...
How would this work? A maintainer uploads a binary release to CVS and
then... what? We tell people who are interested in downloading the
bash distribution that they set up CVS and check out bash.exe and any
other files that are required to /bin?
Hopefully, any maintainer of something like bash will be using whatever
setup exists for bash already. If they have to make a change to get
things compiled under cygwin they will send a patch or check in a change
or whatever to the bash maintainer. I don't think that it will be
profitable for us to be running a "competing" service for packages that
cygnus does not host.
cgf