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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:44:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: 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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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
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