Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Charles Wilson Cc: Robert Collins , "Gerrit P. Haase" Subject: Re: experimental texmf packages References: <878764062 DOT 20011128173421 AT nyckelpiga DOT de> <4434079433 DOT 20011129221637 AT familiehaase DOT de> <9517228633 DOT 20011203135833 AT familiehaase DOT de> <3C0D8535 DOT D67735D1 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <00d501c17d93$1936c990$0200a8c0 AT lifelesswks> <3C0E5FE5 DOT 9040908 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3C0F99CF DOT 3010309 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Organization: Jan at Appel From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Date: 06 Dec 2001 17:27:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3C0F99CF.3010309@ece.gatech.edu> (Charles Wilson's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:16:15 -0500") Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Charles Wilson writes: > You're in bsd-ports "make world" mode, I see. I don't think that is a > goal, yet. *OUR* concern is "make cygwin work". Yes, I guess our priorities don't match. I've been in "make world" mode since the b20 days; I needed to build some core development packages and package additional (possibly unmaintained) packages. And, I didn't want to do too much manual work for each update of a package, maintained or unmaintained. > > Now for something constructive. What if I fix my scripts to do the > > new convention, and we run that over the archive to rebuild everything? > > Be my guest...but remember those "corner cases" I mentioned? square > peg, round hole? Yes, I guess you're right. Indeed, that's why I have the lots-of-scripts package: to make each peg round by hand. Then hope it will fit with the next release of a package too. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/