Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:38:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?) In-Reply-To: <1772244778.20040828140031@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: References: <000901c48ca8$6d7ab850$ca33e2c8@lewlew> <41305550.8060402@x-ray.at> <1772244778.20040828140031@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > [snip] > Until then, I have a version online at > my site, this works and was the base of the actual port done by the > maintainer: > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/ > > To build from source with my patch, be sure to read the README: > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/README Hey, this is a really good idea. Would it be much of a chore to make the package READMEs available on the Cygwin package search page, along with the contents? I'm mostly asking whether it'll create a space problem of some sort, and whether the script that builds the package list files for package-cat.cgi and package-grep.cgi could be made to also extract the READMEs from the packages and link to them online. FWIW, I couldn't find that script in sourceware CVS -- I assume it's somewhere under infra/. If someone points me to that script, I'm willing to give a shot to writing the README extraction code. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/