non-setup information in setup.hint (was Re: Maintainers/Packages List, 2003

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:10:51AM +0000, David F wrote:
>>) We could decide on a comment convention for setup.hint that could be
>>) used for some other tool to process:
>>)
>>) #!binary only
>>
>>That works, or maybe even #!binary-only and either let multiple flags be on
>>one line or allow flags to have arguments.
>
>It's a bit contrived, but...

A *bit* contrived?

>~$ ./setup.hint
>bash: ./setup.hint: binary-only: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>
>Perhaps the special comment should be something other than the shebang? 
>Just a thought.

I pledge to never try to execute setup.hints and be confused by the
output if I see the above.  I certainly hope that the rest of the cygwin
maintainers take that pledge as well.

cgf