Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/25/19:19:34
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:01:46AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:42 AM
>> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: cinstall location
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:32:08AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > sometime ago in a conversation about cinstall and the
>> all-in-one setup
>> >the topic of cinstall's location was rasied. At that point I
>> didn't see
>> >any need to move cinstall.... but I'd actually like to see
>> it moved to
>> >the cygwin-apps repository now.
>> >
>> >Why?
>> >So that we can add a build dependency on a mingw libstdc++,
>> and be done
>> >with reinventing multiple wheels.
>> >
>> >I think that while moving won't be trauma-less, it will
>> result in more
>> >rapid development, and that can only be a good thing. It
>> will also make
>> >having a cinstall -src tarball easier, and the cygwin src snapshots
>> >smaller.
>> >
>> >It's not intended to lessen the link between cinstall and cygwin at
>> >all, rather to make building it easier.
>> >
>> >What do you think?
>>
>> I have no problems moving it. It never really fit into the
>> winsup hierarchy. I put it there because I didn't want to
>> make a new upper level directory on src and there was no
>> cygwin-apps at the time.
>>
>> Let's rename the directory to 'setup', though.
>>
>> FWIW, I think I will physically move the cvs directory to a
>> new location, wiping out all hints of cinstall from winsup.
>
>Yeah, I was going to suggest we do something like that. I've copied it
>over to /cvs/cygwin-apps/setup, chowned it to be owned by cygwin-apps,
>and test checking out the setup200202 branch - all of which worked fine.
>
>
>So... want me to remove the (now obsolete) cinstall directory, or would
>you like to do the honours?
I've removed it.
cgf
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