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

Keith Marshall schreef op 2013-04-22 00:29:
> 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.

Okay.

> 
>> 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).
> 

Fine.

regards,

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

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