Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2000/05/15/14:00:51
--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> My original intent was to avoid this problem: Port version X. Version
> Y released; version X deleted. Time to port version Y. What did you
> change? With no base sources to diff against, you're out of luck.
>
> So, I had hoped we could somehow keep enough information in the
> distribution to be able to know, quickly, what was involved in the
> port.
>
> The diff would always be against the original sources, i.e. they're
> what we needed to add to do the port.
>
Uhm, CVS comes to mind as an aide in doing this. Then the ones that care about
the original could use CVS to get it. Personally, if I as a user download the
source file from the cygwin sight or mirror I would like it to configure and
make without applying a patch.
Regards,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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