On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:02:35 +0200, ASSI > Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps writes: > > Don't quote email addresses, please.
Sorry, I've changed settings of my mailer not to do so. > > > Nice. > > > > Then, how about a commit following yours. > > That's really for Yaakov to say. > > > Now it is suffienct to specify CYGPORT_TAR_EXT as ".tar.zst" in order > > use zstd. But it needs tar version >= 1.31. > > I've asked Eric Blake quite some time ago about an update of GNU tar, so > don't hold your breath. > > > And a next one is for making BUILD_REQUIRES a single-line list in > > *src.hint files. > > … or just don't embed newlines. Since cygport is bash under the hood > you can do > > BUILD_REQUIRES+=" whatever" > > instead of wrapping lines. By squeezing white spaces, we can save some characters in *.cygport files :). And new maintainers can avoid an issue relating newlines in BUILD_REQUIRES without knowing it (I was trapped in it once). Regards, -- Lem
