ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:06:37PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:18:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >I was vetoing the package for inclusion in cygwin.  I was actually
>> >nodding my head when I read your objection to packages being submitted
>> >which use cygbuild, but Chuck is right.  Since there is no official
>> >package in the distribution, it would be inconsistent to block a package
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>  "build package" system in the cygwin distribution.
>>
>> >because it uses a build system not in the distribution.
>>
>> cgf
>
>Can we get a decision (sorry if I've missed it) on whether or not Jari's
>packages need to switch to the configure/make or generic-build-script?

"Since there is no offical build package system in the cygwin distribution
it would be inconsistent to block a package because it uses a build system
not in the distribution."