FW: whois package

[Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>]

It built OOTB.  I remove some source for an alternate mkpasswd app the
author had included.  It wasn't needed for whois functionality.  I didn't
really consider that patching the app.  Other than that, the only
modifications that I made were to the Makefile to get things pointing in the
right direction.  

I know the readme isn't that informative, but there just wasn't that much to
tell.  The author gave no instructions on the usage for whois, so I didn't
bother either. 

The revert patch puts things back together, including the mkpasswd source.
It didn't seem like it really applied to whois though, so I didn't mention
it in the readme.  If that bugs you I'll change it.  Again, I didn't change
ANY whois source.  Oh, now that I think about it I did make one small change
to some ancillary perl apps that help during the build process.  It was a
one-liner that is so trivial I doubt anyone'd care, but kept them from
causing problems under some conditions.  In any case, they're in the revert
patch.

Considering the small changes I made, I don't think it'd be necessary to
split out another directory for cygwin patches.  But, you're the pro.  If
you still think I should make the changes let me know.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp@familiehaase.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:42 AM
> To: Mark Bradshaw
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: whois package
> 
> 
> Hallo Mark,
> 
> Am 2002-01-09 um 05:24 schriebst du:
> 
> > Just wanted to drop in a reminder about the whois package.  Could I
> > get an official/unofficial nanny to check it over, or at 
> least a note
> > telling me to shut up til people have more time?
> 
> > http://www.networksimplicity.com/whois
> 
> I tried the executable, it seems to work well.
> It is stripped now;)
> 
> The Cygwin specific README is in the source package.
> 
> Though, I prefer some more specific infos in the README,
> so it isn't absolutely correct as you stated in the Cygwin
> README, that you changed nothing than the prefix in the 
> makefile, there is this patch which, applied would put the 
> sources back to their original form.
> 
> Or isn't the patch part of your port to Cygwin?
> 
> Usual, or what is used often, is a seperate directory for
> platform specific files like there is this debian directory, 
> on Cygwin there is often used a seperate directory too, named 
> `CYGWIN-PATCHES'.
> 
> 
> Gerrit
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