Re: Maintainer of setup.exe

[Saro Engels <ps_ml at gmx dot de>]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 11 January 2007 12:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:58:46AM +0100, Saro Engels wrote:
> > > > Just a small question which I don't want to send to cygwin:
> > > > who is the maintainer of setup.exe?
> > > > He is writing first person on
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html etc. but I can't find his
> > > > name or email anywhere. 
> > > >
> > > > Is it possibly http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ?
> > > It's maintained by various people and none of them, btw, want to receive
> > > personal email about setup.exe.
> > I'm guessing Saro meant that the question 'who is the maintainer'
> > wasn't suitable for the main list, but it would have been.  Saro, if
> > you need to discuss the usage of setup.exe, the main list is fine for
> > that; if you have patches or bug reports, the cygwin-apps list would be
> > suitable.
>
> Usually when people ask "who maintains X" it means that they want to ask
> the maintainer a question.
>
> With the possible exception of discussing setup.exe usage in the cygwin
> list, AFAICT, this information is gleanable from the setup.html page
> referenced above so I assumed that it wasn't necessary to reiterate it.
>
> cgf

That was not the point as Dave stated - I read setup.html several times 
to know that I don't ask the maintainer questions about the usage of 
setup.exe. The point I am interested in are those topics that are 
mentioned on the ToDo list in setup/README.
Since I am thinking of working on a portable package manager which will 
make it easier to maintain packages on windows as well as on other 
platforms I would like to have a library for cygwin packages.
Until now there is no library but everything is included in the main 
project. I have learned a lot with cygwin and I need it sometimes so I 
am interested in supporting cygwin.

Hope that makes it a bit clearer
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