Proposal: psutils (again)
Daniel Bößwetter
daniel.boesswetter@web.de
Fri Jul 25 09:11:00 GMT 2003
Hi Volker!
I fixed the points from your mail. The new packages are available under
the same URLs as before:
http://home.in.tum.de/~boesswet/psutils_cygwin/psutils-1.17-1.tar.bz2
http://home.in.tum.de/~boesswet/psutils_cygwin/psutils-1.17-1-src.tar.bz2
setup.hint now looks like this:
@ psutils
sdesc: "psutils - Postscript Utilities"
ldesc: "PSUtils is a collection of useful utilities for manipulating
PostScript documents. Programs included are psnup, for placing out several
logical pages on a single sheet of paper, psselect, for selecting pages
from a document, pstops, for general imposition, psbook, for signature
generation for booklet printing, and psresize, for adjusting page sizes."
category: Publishing
test: 1.17-1
requires: perl
The REAME now tells you how to build from source, including the fact,
that you have to symlink the Makefile.unix to Makefile.
Best Regards,
Daniel
Volker Quetschke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> +1 for the package from here.
>
>> as seen at
>>
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-08/msg01132.html
>>
>> the psutils disappeared from the TeX-distribution and are AFAICS not
>> yet a seperate package. The unsupported packages on Jan's site seem
>> to be lost as well, so I compiled it from source and would (enough
>> votes presumed) become the maintainer of the Cygwin port.
>
>
> I did a quick review, here is what I found:
>
> - Your psutils-1.17-1.patch is not patching the original Makefile
> of the source package, but creates a new Makefile. So you cannot
> recreate the original source by applying the reverse patch.
>
> - The setup.hint in CYGWIN-PATCHES has an "ldesc" which contains one
> *very*
> long line as a program description. It propably would be better to
> split
> it into some lines, with each line shorter than 80 characters.
>
> - The package installs some perl scripts into /usr/bin, so perl is
> required,
> this has to go into the setup.hint
>
> - In the psutils-1.17.README give the information needed for an end
> user to
> recreate the package. This includes CFLAGS settings, configure
> parameters,
> etc. (Even, if it's just make, make install)
>
> I'didn't test the functionality, but the package builds cleanly and
> the layout
> of of the binary package looks ok.
>
> I'll have a deeper look at the makefile patch, once it's there.
>
> Volker
>
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