Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/01/10/01:18:30
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:51:20PM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
>From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
>To: CA List <Cygwin-Apps AT cygwin DOT com>
>Subject: FW: whois package
>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:51:20 -0500
>
>It built OOTB. I remove some source for an alternate mkpasswd app the
>author had included. It wasn't needed for whois functionality. I didn't
>really consider that patching the app. Other than that, the only
>modifications that I made were to the Makefile to get things pointing in the
>right direction.
>
>I know the readme isn't that informative, but there just wasn't that much to
>tell. The author gave no instructions on the usage for whois, so I didn't
>bother either.
>
>The revert patch puts things back together, including the mkpasswd source.
>It didn't seem like it really applied to whois though, so I didn't mention
>it in the readme. If that bugs you I'll change it. Again, I didn't change
>ANY whois source. Oh, now that I think about it I did make one small change
>to some ancillary perl apps that help during the build process. It was a
>one-liner that is so trivial I doubt anyone'd care, but kept them from
>causing problems under some conditions. In any case, they're in the revert
>patch.
>
>Considering the small changes I made, I don't think it'd be necessary to
>split out another directory for cygwin patches. But, you're the pro. If
>you still think I should make the changes let me know.
From your description, it sounds like you made all of the right decisions.
I think the package sounds fine as is.
cgf
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