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

On 19/04/13 20:35, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> 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?
>
> I think it's a good idea to have the XMLs in a contrib folder in
> mingw-dist.

I've done that now.  FWIW, I've also corrected the file attributes for 
your previous commits, Erwin -- XML and log files should not have the 
executable bits set.  Please investigate why they did, and rectify that 
anomaly on the next occasion when you commit.

> Or name the folder "Contributed" in line with the name in MinGW Files.

I prefer 'contrib', which is what I've used; the catalogues don't live 
in 'Contributed' on FRS anyway, so there's no particular reason to use 
this name, (and I dislike mixed case directory names in general).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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