X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4422B654.4010206@huarp.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:53:08 -0500 From: Norton Allen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Creating a custom Cygwin package server References: <44215B06.70602@huarp.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: pass (ent.arp.harvard.edu: 140.247.244.85 is authenticated by a trusted mechanism) 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 Igor Peshansky wrote: > "upset" was a private script that received too much attention at some > point, and CGF decided that it wasn't worth making a public open-source > project. Also, "upset"'s functionality was much broader than just > generating setup.ini. Thus "genini", written for that express purpose. > Yes, "genini" has no documentation, but, IIRC, CGF will consider patches > to it (including documentation patches). So, it has the potential of > becoming *the* way of generating setup.ini files for custom package > servers. Anyone can help out. . > HTH, Thank you, that's a useful perspective. Hint well taken. I'll try using it and see how much I can offer in the way of documentation. -Norton -- 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/