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Re: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)


Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
[snip]
Until then, I have a version online at
my site, this works and was the base of the actual port done by the
maintainer:
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/

To build from source with my patch, be sure to read the README:
http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/README

Hey, this is a really good idea. Would it be much of a chore to make the package READMEs available on the Cygwin package search page, along with the contents? I'm mostly asking whether it'll create a space problem of some sort, and whether the script that builds the package list files for package-cat.cgi and package-grep.cgi could be made to also extract the READMEs from the packages and link to them online. FWIW, I couldn't find that script in sourceware CVS -- I assume it's somewhere under infra/. If someone points me to that script, I'm willing to give a shot to writing the README extraction code.

What about $ egrep "search-regex" /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/*

Must everything be on the web?
Maybe, because Google will not pickup the cygwin README's then. And people trust Google more than the content of their harddisc.
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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