cygport limitations

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Fri Jun 21 18:07:00 GMT 2013


On 6/20/2013 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>    If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change
>    the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros.
>    In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and
>    the source archive.  The actual build for all supported platforms
>    could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there.

With cygport, you wouldn't even need to provide sources.  We could email 
in the new cygport file instead of an RFU.

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