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Re: setup.hint documentation issues
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:03:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: setup.hint documentation issues
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Jon Turney writes:
>> OK, although we might need some sort of escaping in the long run.
>
> Yes, I have no problem with later adding escaping e.g. using '\', if
> needed, since that can written with a character by character lexer.
Indeed and it should also be possible to parse via regex. IN any case,
that's not a problem we need to solve now.
>> So the proposal is to remove skip or make it mandatory for source-only
>> packages?
>
> I'm not sure. I think I tend towards removing it, since it doesn't
> add any information.
OK.
> But currently cygport generates a setup.hint for source-only package
> which only contains 'skip'. I'm not sure that's the best idea, as
> having no sdesc, etc. means we can't describe the source package.
Hmm. I guess Yaakov perhaps knows what that was supposed to achieve.
Regards,
Achim.
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