Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:42:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move the setup code from CVS to Subversion. Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings over cvs, but a notable

Re: Attn: openldap maintainer

2004-08-19 Thread Reini Urban
Max Bowsher schrieb: Please rename your libopenldap2-2-15 package to libopenldap2_2_15 The dashes followed by digits in the name are making setup.exe confused about which part is the package name and which part is the version number. Shouldn't it be libopenldap-2.2.15? Official versions are

Re: [update] base-files and base-passwd

2004-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 17:04, John Morrison wrote: Please upload :) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-files-3.0-2.tar.bz2 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum

Re: Attn: openldap maintainer

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Reini Urban wrote: Max Bowsher schrieb: Please rename your libopenldap2-2-15 package to libopenldap2_2_15 The dashes followed by digits in the name are making setup.exe confused about which part is the package name and which part is the version number. Shouldn't it be libopenldap-2.2.15? Official

Re: Attn: openldap maintainer

2004-08-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Max Bowsher writes: Please rename your libopenldap2-2-15 package to libopenldap2_2_15 The dashes followed by digits in the name are making setup.exe confused about which part is the package name and which part is the version number. Thanks for the catch. I would like to

Re: Attn: openldap maintainer

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Max Bowsher writes: Please rename your libopenldap2-2-15 package to libopenldap2_2_15 The dashes followed by digits in the name are making setup.exe confused about which part is the package name and which part is the version number. Thanks for the catch. I

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:42 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: [about the possibility of converting setup to subversion] I'm also not keen on this for several reasons: * subversion doesn't address the issues with merging distribution that made it difficult for folk with long-running

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:42 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move the setup code from CVS to Subversion. Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings over cvs, but a notable concrete benefit subversion

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 23:00, Robert Collins wrote: I'm also not keen on this for several reasons: * subversion doesn't address the issues with merging distribution that made it difficult for folk with long-running patches to stay in sync * subversion appears to be a very fragile system (I'm working with

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32

2004-08-19 Thread Reini Urban
Rafael, what about a perl-libwin32 update for cygwin perl-5.8.5? it works almost out of the box, just the site_perl/5.8.5/ path has to used instead. or maybe a clever postinstall script should be used, which checks for the current perl version and moves the paths then. maybe you want to

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 19 23:00, Robert Collins wrote: I'm also not keen on this for several reasons: * subversion doesn't address the issues with merging distribution that made it difficult for folk with long-running patches to stay in sync * subversion appears to be a very fragile

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:12:37AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I would not support such a move. I'd be interested to hear your reasons, so we might discuss this. Again, I do not see any reason to fragment cygwin/cygwin-apps development like this. Telling people that you need to use svn if you

Re: Attn: openldap maintainer

2004-08-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Max Bowsher writes: libopenldap2_2_7 , IMO. Base the package name on the DLL name, since if the dll name changes, linked applications will break (so a new package will be needed) and if the dll name doesn't change, then you won't be able to make a concurrently

Bug in ssmtp-config, and a general note about configuration interview scripts

2004-08-19 Thread John Hardin
All: Just ran across a bug in ssmtp-config that brings up an issue in build-a-config-file interview scripts in general: If the user makes an error typing in a config setting, and (naturally enough) hits the backspace key to fix it, ssmtp-config (and probably many other similar scripts as well)

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:12:37AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: I would not support such a move. I'd be interested to hear your reasons, so we might discuss this. Again, I do not see any reason to fragment cygwin/cygwin-apps development like this. Telling people that you