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Re: new site for my ports is up


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>>But latest and contrib are going away, AFAIRC.  Chris has a grand 
>>refactoring scheme where the packages actually live in a tree structure 
>>related to the primary category (Net, Base, Lib, Graphics, etc)
>>
>>right, Chris?
>>
> 
> I did talk about that once, didn't I.
> 
> The current setup.ini builder can't deal with that but it would be trivial
> to add, of course.
> 
> I was going to give the new version of setup.exe some time before I made
> any other changes, though.  And, I have some infrastructure work that
> I want to do too, like improving the cygwin packages web page.


Naturally.  In your original emails on this subject, it was clear that (to 
me) that this was a tuit issue.  I just wanted to point out that the idea 
of using "well installed.db sez it came from 'contrib' so it must be 
official" was not forward-looking enough.

--Chuck



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