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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:24:58 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)
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Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> 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.

What about
$ egrep "search-regex" /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/*

Must everything be on the web?
Maybe, because Google will not pickup the cygwin README's then. And 
people trust Google more than the content of their harddisc.
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Reini Urban
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