Re: Dropping requires: from setup.ini?
On 06/09/2022 06:46, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Perhaps it's time to consider dropping the requires: line from setup.ini? I guess the only way to find out is to actually do it and see who complains… maybe if Cygwin 3.4 is imminent that update would be a good time to make that change. I have deployed this change. I'd rather not couple it to something else unnecessarily, especially as I'll have other problems to worry about when we get around to dropping x86 packages after 3.4...
Re: Dropping requires: from setup.ini?
Jon Turney writes: > Perhaps it's time to consider dropping the requires: line from setup.ini? I guess the only way to find out is to actually do it and see who complains… maybe if Cygwin 3.4 is imminent that update would be a good time to make that change. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra
Dropping requires: from setup.ini?
Perhaps it's time to consider dropping the requires: line from setup.ini? requires: contains the union of dependencies for all package versions (long ago, it was the dependencies for the current package version, and the dependencies for other versions were not available to setup, with hilarious consequences...) requires: is superfluous to depends2:, which versions of setup since 2.888 (Feb 2018) understand, but there may be some other 3rd-party tools which still rely on it. Dropping it also reduces the size of setup.ini by about 5%. (See [1] for an example of the confusion it's continued existence can cause) (setup versions <2.903 are precluded from trying to use a current setup.ini, by a combination of changed signing key and policy mechanisms inside setup) [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250949.html