First time packager questions

[Ralph Hempel]

I am shortly going to ITP my first package (Lua) and have a few
questions:

0. Should I use cygport to build my package? I've got a clean
    source tree and I've made changes in a separate tree to make
    it easier to generate diffs.

    Also, I've designed my own make scripts to build everything
    correctly in a separate output tree, ie I don't build in the
    source tree.

    The make scripts even generate a staged version of the final
    installation directories to make tarball generation easy.

1. Should my build make just a .dll file to link against, or should
    I also provide a .a library for static linking?

    It's easy to get mixed up with static and dynamic linking so
    I'd rather provide one "standard" way to do this.

2. If I'm planning on adding a few "standard" Lua libraries like
    LuaSQL, LuaFileSystem, and LuaSocket, should they be separate
    ITPs?

    I'd rather build all the libraries at once and provide them in
    the build system, since it's a real pain for a typical user to
    build these libraries under Cygwin.

3. I'm currently using Cygwin 1.7 and gcc-4 to build and test
    this out, but should I do it for 1.5 as well?

    I could go back and use Cygwin 1.5 and the standard gcc but
    if 1.7 will be out soon, then I'd rather make a clean break.

Cheers, Ralph