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RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)


For now I was just mirroring Andrew's files so that other people could
comment on them.  I haven't looked at them myself.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:40 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they
> called?)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >Okay, I mirrored the files:
> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint
> >http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum
>
> I'm not clear on whether these (mirrored) files are being formally
> offered for the cygwin release or not.
>
> I assume that these are just for people to play with but that will
> require a little bit of customization of local setup.ini's if
> you want to do anything useful.
>
> If they are intended for the release then please follow the instructions
> at http://cygwin.com/setup.html under "Submitting a package".
>
> It seems like there were originally some questions that are best dealt
> with in the cygwin-apps mailing list (cc'ed), where discussion about
> that kind of stuff is commonplace.
>
> I am excited about getting this into the cygwin distribution.  I wonder
> how many people will discover it when it becomes part of the main
> distro.
>
> My inclination is to just add the xfree directory in the ftp area to the
> list of directories that setup scans for files to install.  Then you can
> create your hierarchy under that.
>
> Or, were you planning on keeping the separate .tgz files around too?
>
> cgf


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