Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/02/13:09:25
Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> <grumpy old-man voice>
> 1. I believe this problem is a non-issue. If setup.ini doesn't match the
> actual file layout, it's a maintainer error. Pkg. maintainer should fix it.
>
> 2. If somebody changed packaging from .gz to .bz2 without bumping the
> release number, it was a mistake. Easily fixable -- maintainer should
> release new version.
>
> 3. didn;t we already have a huge discussion about this whole
> .tar.gz/.tar.bz2/.tgz/.tbz file-extension auto-recognize issue? Doesn't
> the patch below implement *exactly* the thing we decided *NOT* to do?
> Whatever happened to the "stream-based processing" idea?
> </grumpy old-man voice>
>
> --Chuck
>
> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 20:32, Ronald Landheer wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I agree that it's bad practice on the maintainers behalf, but I think
> >>>Setup should be able to handle it anyway: either it should not offer a
> >>>package it won't be able to unpack, or it should be able to unpack
> >>>anything it offers (regardless of whether it's .gz or .bz2, and
> >>>regardless of where it happens to live: if found & offered, make good
> >>>the offer).
> >>>
> >>Granted. I just have no motivation to fix it, but if you have the time,
> >>or someone else does, I won't object to patches that address this
> >>cleanly.
Charles, I followed what Robert says above - if someone want to try and
fix it
then do it by yourselfs - one may apply it to tree. So if none wants to
apply its
ok with me.
Btw, I havent read the discussion on this topic so i did the patch :(
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