[g-b-s patch] Re: Trial plotutils packages again

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > > According to Charles Wilson on 10/12/2005 10:09 PM:
> > > >
> > > > > Within the README file
> > > > >
> > > > > > [t]here's no need to list...
> > > > >
> > > > > exactly which files are included within each of
> > > > >
> > > > > > ... the tarballs; in fact it's actually discouraged (because it
> > > > > > always
> > > > > > ends up getting out of date).
> > > >
> > > > Actually, the generic-build-script template recommends this.  Are you
> > > > proposing changing the template?
> > >
> > > Huh?  I thought for sure I saw something to the effect of my statement
> > > on the mailing list...
> > >
> > > Ah, here it is:
> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00198.html
> > >
> > > But my memory was faulty; no conclusion was reached in that thread.
> >
> > Exactly.  So I'm asking again: *is* this the consensus?  If so, I'll
> > remove that section from the readme template.
>
> I consense: pkg listings should be removed from generic-README...

:-)  Okay, I take that as a "yes"...  When Eric submits the tweaked patch,
I'll apply it.

> > > > Maybe the patch should be tweaked to recommend "cygcheck -l $PKG"
> > > > instead of the current recommendation of an explicit list that is
> > > > likely to get out of date.
> > >
> > > Yes, that's a pretty good idea.
> >
> > Agreed.  Eric, if you plan to tweak the above patch, you should probably
> > also mention <http://cygwin.com/packages/> as the place to get package
> > content listings.
>
> ...with OR without the addition of a recommendation to use cygcheck -l or
> /packages/.  Just so I can stop hand editing those stupid lists. :-)

You mean you don't use the "list" function of the g-b-s for this?  It's a
cinch to do in vim... :-)
	Igor
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