Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you install an orphaned package - something like The package ... is up for adoption! Please take a look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how you can help out! Perhaps add a new category orphaned as well, listing all orphaned packages and offering to download the source by default.. JAT.. rlc
Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you install an orphaned package - something like The package ... is up for adoption! Please take a look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how you can help out! Perhaps add a new category orphaned as well, listing all orphaned packages and offering to download the source by default.. JAT.. rlc Umm, we want to encourage people into adopting packages, not annoy them into it... Although prepending Orphaned to the package sdesc might not be a bad idea (as well as the new category idea above). 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! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:19:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:40:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. Why not make it a setup flag? Make a nasty little pop-up box pop up when you install an orphaned package - something like The package ... is up for adoption! Please take a look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html to see how you can help out! Perhaps add a new category orphaned as well, listing all orphaned packages and offering to download the source by default.. JAT.. rlc Umm, we want to encourage people into adopting packages, not annoy them into it... Although prepending Orphaned to the package sdesc might not be a bad idea (as well as the new category idea above). I don't think we need to air our dirty laundry in the setup screens. It will surely generate lots of mailing list traffic if we start adding Orphaned to a user-visible screen. Lets just try to drive this ourselves without involving everyone who uses cygwin. cgf
RE: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: [snip] The current attributes I use in apps.xml are: binary-only (no lack-of-source checks) ignore-before=X (ignore new versions less than or equal to X) ignore-freshmeat (for Cygwin-specific packages) maintainer (just the name) obsolete (binary-only+ignore-freshmeat+no out-of-date checks) related-to=X (the directory this package goes in; libdb4.1-devel is related-to db4.1, which is related-to db) withhold (do not display in the PPL/MPL) Plus, I include URLs, dates for proposals, votes, reviews, etc., but those are probably things I should continue to maintain independently. BTW, another piece of non-setup information that might be useful is an up for adoption (or orphaned) flag. 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! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003-11-22)
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:17:51PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-11-24T11:01-0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: ) On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: ) For now it's just in my records. Even if it is made publicly tunable, I ) imagine it will be made outside of setup.hint (since that is for setup's ) benefit). ) We could decide on a comment convention for setup.hint that could be ) used for some other tool to process: ) ) #!binary only That works, or maybe even #!binary-only and either let multiple flags be on one line or allow flags to have arguments. Good point. sdesc: Frobdicates kernel sources category: Devel requires: cygwin #!maintainer Daniel Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!alert-maintainer I think I like this one more since it is closer to the way setup.hint already operates. cgf
