X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:53:50 +0200 From: d.sastre.medina@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2 Message-ID: <20100428215350.GC3719@ghost.local.lan> References: <4BD8509B.4040405@veritech.com> <20100428165938.GA3719@ghost.local.lan> <20100428181202.GB3719@ghost.local.lan> <4BD87C2F.1040203@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BD87C2F.1040203@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:19:27PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: > >> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein: > >> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. > >=20 > > Fair enough. > > Two options, then: > >=20 > > -patching the manpage > > -patching the source and the cygport > >=20 > > None of them involve too much work. So now I would like to know (from > > some authoritative source :)) if a there is a guideline, an unspoken ag= reement, > > or a good practice defined regarding the extension of non-binary execut= ables=20 > > under /usr/bin. >=20 > Perhaps unspoken, but I prefer suffix-less executables. Then I don't > have to care whether they are binary or interpreted scripts. Besides, > having a suffix makes it harder to reimplement in a different language > (for example, suppose someone decided to rewrite makeself in C, python, > or perl, instead of sh). So following debian practice of stripping the > .sh suffix as part of the packaging effort seems reasonable (and in the > meantime, perhaps you may also want to report this upstream as a bug > they might want to fix). I committed several changes: -Executable files have had their .sh extensions stripped. -makeself-header moved out of /usr/bin into /usr/share/makeself. -makeself-2.1.5-3.cygport file modified accordingly. -README file updated using script provided with upstream sources. Hopefully I'll RFU tomorrow. Thanks Lee for the report and Eric for the suggestions. Best regards. --=20 Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvYrm4ACgkQ0Tqi4ZilyVP5oQCggORh8OCGPS63c///kdo5CKuR WhAAn2ttYuYGZfIrw22LBXdVqzkDZKp2 =4p6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw--