RE: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

2004-03-27 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
Currently, I store all package information in a large XML document which I update by hand whenever a new package is ITPd, an existing package is updated, or some other change must be made against the live repository. XSL transformations convert this XML document into several other formats,

Pending Packages List, 2004-03-27

2004-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
This is the list of pending packages as of Saturday, March 27, 2004. If you see something missing, please let the list know. I'd like to again propose that if someone's ITP'd package has outstanding issues, that someone cannot ITP any new packages until either the issues are addressed or the

RE: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2004-03-27T08:38-0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: ) package name=libfoo version=0.01 release=1 ) sdesc The Finite Object Organization library/ Close :) The existing data looks like: app nameaspell-de/name related-toaspell/related-to maintainerDr. Volker

ITP: ac-archive

2004-03-27 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi. setup.hint sdesc: The Autoconf Macro Archive ldesc: The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested macros that are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too specific to be included into autoconf itself. category: Devel requires: perl

gbs patch (prep/patch)

2004-03-27 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi. Attached is a small patch for gbs' prep command. ChangeLog entry: 2004-03-27 Marcel Telka [EMAIL PROTECTED] * templates/generic-build-script (prep): Apply patch only if it is available. -- +---+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: [EMAIL

ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? The latest on coreutils is that it's still not ready to go mainstream (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00150.html). Igor --

Re: gbs patch (prep/patch)

2004-03-27 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2004-03-27T21:02+0100, Marcel Telka wrote: ) * templates/generic-build-script (prep): Apply patch only if it is ) available. I believe the .patch is required, even if it is empty. (I am distributing a 0-byte .patch with naim, at least.) -- Daniel Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gbs patch (prep/patch)

2004-03-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Marcel Telka wrote: Hi. Attached is a small patch for gbs' prep command. ChangeLog entry: 2004-03-27 Marcel Telka [EMAIL PROTECTED] * templates/generic-build-script (prep): Apply patch only if it is available. Marcel, Thanks for the patch.

Re: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:17:45PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: Currently, only my tools use the XML format. All of the utilities that deal with setup.ini, including the most important utility--setup.exe itself--only use the structured-text format found in current setup.hint files. The proposal was

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the

RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear. I'd also

RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be included, remembering that we have a software web page at cygwin.com which can be used to advertise

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:23:42PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect?

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:30:51PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be included, remembering that we have a

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:23:42PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: How do you submit something now that http://cygwin.com/ported.html doesn't contain any form ? It never contained a form. You use the form on the main cygwin page.

Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?

2004-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:27:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is the ITP moratorium declared in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html still in effect? Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that