>>>>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas Wourms writes:
Nicholas> As I'm sure you know, RPM handles conflicts gracefully while setup
Nicholas> mostly does not. Therefore, this makes things more complicated on
Nicholas> Cygwin, since conflicting packages can actually lead to conflicting
Nicholas> files not being installed at all. I would *strongly* urge that we not
Nicholas> intentionally allow any conflicts at all (at least not at this point),
Nicholas> as it can lead to all sorts of problems. IIRC from the last
Nicholas> ctags/emacs fiasco, Corinna made her stance on conflicting ctags
Nicholas> known: she would have none of that. However, since these conflicts
Nicholas> all share a similar, albeit forked, codebase, wouldn't it be better,
Nicholas> in the long run, if we just merged them into a single package? Since
Nicholas> I'm the one asking, I'll check out the sources later on and see if
Nicholas> this is possible. If nothing else, I'm pretty good at merging code
Nicholas> from forks :-).
So, is it possible ?
Nicholas> Cheers,
Nicholas> Nicholas
Ciao
Volker
