Re: Improving the performance of "mingw-get update"

Keith Marshall schreef, Op 17-4-2013 14:18:
>
> 2) The two packages in the "user contributed" category, (both Erwin's 
> IIRC), aren't qualified with a publication date stamp in the generated 
> package list; this arises because neither of the associated XML files 
> is physically present within the mingw-dist repository.  This isn't 
> necessarily a problem -- mingw-get will simply continue to behave as 
> it does now, WRT these two files, and download them every time, 
> whether changed or not, when processing 'mingw-get update'; however, 
> it may be preferable to add a 'contrib' sub-directory to mingw-dist, 
> and require that all contributed packages should be accompanied by an 
> XML package description, to be added to, and managed within this 
> mingw-dist sub-directory.  Thoughts?
>

Hi,

I think it's a good idea to have the XMLs in a contrib folder in 
mingw-dist. Or name the folder "Contributed" in line with the name in 
MinGW Files.

regards,

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/


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