Retiring setup.hint

[Jon Turney]

On 25/10/2017 21:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 25 20:42, Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> I propose that calm will stop accepting uploads containing setup.hint some
>> time shortly after 2017-11-18.
>>
>> This is approximately one year after the cygport release [1] which, stopped
>> generating these files, so if you're using cygport >= 0.23.0, no action is
>> needed.
>>
>> Warnings that you need to upgrade cygport have been generated for more than
>> 6 months [2].
>>
>> After setup.hint uploads are disabled, any remaining setup.hint in the
>> cygwin release on sourceware.org will be migrated to pvr.hint(s), as per
>> [3].
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-11/msg00078.html
>> [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00024.html
>> [3] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-09/msg00025.html
> 
> I'm still generating setup.hint files for the Cygwin package itself.
> 
> Please have a look into cygwin's cygport file.  Do we have an *easy*
> replacement for creating test releases from cygport in the meantime?
> 
> Ideally I can simply call cygport with a --test parameter or some such
> to create a test release.

See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-10/msg00017.html which 
contains my patch to do this, and an offer to implement this in whatever 
way is acceptable to Yaakov.

> As long as we don't have that, I'm inclined to veto the idea to drop
> setup.hint.