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From: "Morrison, John" <John DOT Morrison AT uk DOT experian DOT com>
To: "'cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: which which
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:15:33 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:vinschen AT redhat DOT com]
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:37:31PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> > > "Morrison, John" wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > And here's the setup.hint:
> > > > 
> > > > sdesc: "Displays where a particular program in your 
> path is located"
> > > > ldesc: "Which takes one or more arguments. For each of 
> its arguments
> > > > it prints to stdout the full path of the executables
> > > > that would have been executed when this argument had been
> > > > entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for
> > > > an executable or script in the directories listed in the
> > > > environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as bash."
> > > > prev: 1.5-1
> > > > test: 2.13-1
> > > > category: Base
> > > > requires:
> > > > 
> > > > *note* that this version is in deliberately as test 
> *GRIN*.  It's a
> > > > complete change of code base so I think it warrants it 
> :)  It also
> > > > has no package dependences (but you have to have Cygwin 
> installed to
> > > > do anything with it ;)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Then 1.5-1 is current and not previous.  You can have all 
> three, prev,
> > > curr and test in the same directory.
> > > 
> > 
> > Good point - that makes sense.  Consider it changed :)  
> will upload the
> > replacement soon.
> 
> Please drop the `test' marker.  The GNU version becomes `curr',
> my version either `prev' or dropped completely.  I'm going to drop
> the `test' marker for the units package either.
> 
> You're the maintainer of `which' then, ok?  I just want to make clear
> that I don't maintain `which' anymore after the change to the GNU
> version.
> 
> And again, I don't have any personal problem with that.  I appreciate
> that you're proactively moving over to the GNU version.  It makes
> sense to use it, as you mentioned in your other posting.
> 
> Corinna

OK I don't mind maintaining it as long as I can just forward questions to
the proper people :) and it compiles OOTB (or very nearly :])

I've changed the hints file to:

prev: 1.5-1
curr: 2.13-1

I don't want to force folks to use this copy.

Feel free to upload it, but could I ask you to announce it too as I'm off
line soon...

Thanks,

J.



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