Re: Msys-1.0 program updates

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Keith Marshall schreef, Op 22-2-2013 23:28:
>> On 22/02/13 22:13, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>>> The standard method of packaging is using a mgwport script. Some older
>>> packages are not packaged with mgwport yet. Then a new version is a good
>>> opportunity to change it to mgwport.
>> It may be Chuck's preferred way, but it isn't mine.  I have "voiced"
>> serious reservations here, in the past; I have yet to receive a
>> satisfactory response.
>>
>> I do not like mgwport.  I do not like the structure of the packages
>> which Chuck generates with it.  I will not use it myself; neither will I
>> require anyone else to do so.  It is *not* a project standard.
>>
>
> Oh, sorry. I was under the impression that mgwport was standard. Or at
> least that the old scripts were passé. I like mgwport, but it is not
> holy for me. I can also live with an alternative solution.

It's more of, its a preferred method by a package maintainer, if that
method works for you too, then use it.  If it doesn't use a different
method.  The point is the method should be able to create the packages
we deliver.  For mingw-org-wsl I wrote targets in Makefile.in to
handle the packaging.

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