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Re: strange source packaging?


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:21:57PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> >>  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00510.html
> >
> > Wow.  Insightful email.
> 
> as usual...
> 
> > Well, I guess I haven't been paying much attention to your and Robert's
> > packages.  I'd forgotten that I'd suggested that we package as we see
> > fit and foolishly looked to what I supposed was the final word on the
> > subject.
> 
> It's been a bit of a mess.  In my original email to this thread, I
> summarized the three packaging styles (I won't call them standards) that are
> currently, actually, in use.
> 
> That doesn't mean I think having 3 different styles -- only one of which is
> actually documented somewhere official -- is a good idea.  OTOH, since the
> longwinded discussion last November (and its resolution sans an actual
> standard), Robert and I (and a few others) have been "standardizing" one way
> (which was a compromise in and of itself).  So there are only 3 extant
> styles, not 47.  Which is something.

If I'm looking over a package for inclusion I'm currently accepting
two styles:

  package-ver-subver/
    ...

or

  package-ver-subver.patch
  package-ver-subver.sh
  package-ver.tar.[bg]z[2*]   <-- The pristine source

Can we agree to use and document only these styles?

Corinna

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