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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:49:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)
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On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >   If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change
> >   the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros.
> >   In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and
> >   the source archive.  The actual build for all supported platforms 
> >   could be done on a machine which creates the distro from there.
> 
> That would be cool.  Let's do it!

Uhm, that was a projection into the ideal future.  No provisions have
been made yet.  We need to set up a central repository like Yaakov's
cygwinports git repo and a central build mechanism.  The first we can
probably shamelessly copy from Yaakov and set up over the next few
months, the second needs a bit of hacking.


Corinna

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