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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)
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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
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