Re: Pending packages status

[Gareth Pearce]

> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:25:34AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >I forgot to mention this earlier, but I also like the idea of the
> >necessary files being in one tar, like this:
> >
>
>http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/5153/cygwin-package/tmake-
1.8-1-package.tgz
> >
> >Instead of three separate files (.hint, -src.tar.bz2, .tar.bz2). This
> >makes it easier to check out a package. Especially the setup.hint files
have
> >had some CRLF problems.
> >
> >Could this be a new standard?
>
> I think that anyone who uploads the files would rather have them in three
separate
> files.  It's easier to just say "curl -Os http://qwer/wqer.tar.bz2"; three
times than
> to do it once, extract it and copy the result to the correct release
directory.
>

Even the originator of this practice agreed (i think?) this isnt
preferable - hes merely getting around geocities limitations.

Gareth