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Re: [ITP] FreeCiv 1.12.0 for X


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:23:57AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> > Yes, you really should be subscribed to the XFree86 mailing list if you 
> > are ITP'ing a package for X.  However, since ghostscript was a switch 
> > hitter, apparently it was ok for it to get approved here.  I believe 
> > Freeciv has an ncurses version, so I'm not real sure what the protocol 
> > would be on this.  Should do an ITP on cygwin-xfree as well?

[snip]

> If there are two binaries (and X version and a separate ncurses version) 
> that can each be installed independently of the other -- with perhaps a 
> third "common" package that each depends on -- then I'd probably 
> two-track it.  Post to both cygwin-apps and cygwin-xfree.
> 
> Or, release it in stages: first the non-X version, thru cygwin-apps. 
> Then later the X- version, which should probably be discussed on both 
> cygwin-apps and cygwin-xfree.  (Yeah, ghostscript-X should've been cc:ed 
> to cygwin-xfree, probably).

I'll go ahead and resend the Ghostscript 7.05-1 announcement to
cygwin-xfree; I'm sure the XFree86 users would like to know about
it too.

-- 
Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com


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