On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Igor Pechtchanski on 10/13/2005 5:36 PM: > > > Exactly. So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus? If so, I'll > > remove that section from the readme template. > > You've got my vote - I have to edit the readme file for every release to > give details about the new release, but not worrying about the file list > will make that a little less painful (even though g-b-s does provide the > list option).
Someone tried to fix this so that the README was automatically updated with the file list. Given that he hasn't completed the task, you're right. > > Agreed. Eric, if you plan to tweak the above patch, you should probably > > also mention <http://cygwin.com/packages/> as the place to get package > > content listings. > > Done as requested, plus a sample generic-setup.hint: > > 2005-10-13 Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net> > > * templates/generic-setup.hint: New file. > * templates/generic-readme: Add License, Language. List date > when releases are made. Remove explicit file listing in favor of > instructions on how to reproduce it. > * templates/generic-build-script: Fix typo when failing. Applied, with a slight rewording of the package listing section. Thanks! BTW, it might be worth mentioning in generic-setup.hint that even though setup doesn't currently understand the maintainer: field, it would be worthwhile to update it anyway (i.e., the setup.hint's sent to cygwin-apps would contain two comments -- the package and the maintainer). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
