next net release preliminary info

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jan 26 12:43:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:27:43PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> This is good too.  I would like to see the things common to each package,
>> things like readline, intl, etc. moved to this level and removed from the
>> package for the sake of the cygwin distributions as well.  This would cut down
>> on the size of each package but would require managing dependencies
>> differently.
>
>But, the officially released packages each have different versions of
>these common things.  What then?

Hmm.  When I hear dependencies, I think Makefile.

How about a "make install" for the binary packages?

cgf


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