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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: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:31:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: setup.hint documentation issues
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- References: <56B9E71A dot 7010002 at dronecode dot org dot uk>
Jon Turney writes:
> I think currently UTF-8 displays correctly in the HTML package pages,
> but neither encoding displays correctly in setup.
>
> I'd suggest that we specify UTF-8 and eventually fix setup to handle that.
UTF-8 these days, please.
> I'd suggest this mangling is removed, and sdesc starting
> "packagename:" is explicitly reported.
OK.
> I'd suggest that double-quoting of those keys is made mandatory, and
> embedded double-quotes are forbidden, as this permits simpler
> processing of this text, lexing character by character.
OK, although we might need some sort of escaping in the long run.
> upset knows enough to omit packages which have no install tarfiles
> (i.e. are source-only) from from setup.ini, irrespective of 'skip'.
>
> However, the presence of 'skip' also causes the package to be omitted
> from the HTML package list.
I could be wrong, but it seems it may have been intended to deal with
packages that became obsolete, but the previous version was still kept.
> I think cygport's behaviour has changed over time, but currently will
> mark source-packages as 'skip', however there are several packages
> that are source-only (e.g. attica), that are missing 'skip'.
So the proposal is to remove skip or make it mandatory for source-only
packages?
Regards,
Achim.
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