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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:44:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Reini Urban cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?) In-Reply-To: <4130BFEA.6080804@x-ray.at> Message-ID: References: <000901c48ca8$6d7ab850$ca33e2c8 AT lewlew> <41305550 DOT 8060402 AT x-ray DOT at> <1772244778 DOT 20040828140031 AT familiehaase DOT de> <4130BFEA DOT 6080804 AT x-ray DOT at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > 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. It would also allow people to peruse the READMEs for Cygwin packages that they haven't installed. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/