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Re: revise Package Contributor's Guide?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:05:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: revise Package Contributor's Guide?
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> On 13/05/2014 20:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> Attached is a patch which moves the old method one and two to an archive
> >> page, and continues the boffo packaging example into the section for the
> >> cygport method.
> >>
> >> Other stuff left to do:
> >> - Change to link to the new upload process page
> >> - Correct paths on the package server from release/ to <arch>/release
> >> - Change the examples to use .xz compression
> >
> > Jon, I think this is a good start. I suggest that you go ahead and move
> > this out, so we can continue improving the page from there. Andrew
>
> Thanks. I think I applied this a few days ago.
OK, I see now that you did. I think it's much better than before.
> BTW, if you want to write patches for the cygwin website (hint hint), I
> think the runes to check out a local copy of it are:
>
> "cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org:/cvs/cygwin co htdocs"
Sure. I think it will be easier to make improvements now from a more
up-to-date guide. I'll send patches here for you to apply.
Andrew