From: Manu <ma...@wa...> - 2002-11-08 21:38:07
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Jos=E9 Fonseca wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:01:49AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > I've added manubee to the list of developers and have associated > > ma...@us... with the mingw-dvlpr mailing list. If = you > > wish to post messages with a different account please let me know. > > > > Work with Kees on the package layout. The ports subdirectory has > > already been added but is empty. I will look at the web pages to dec= ide > > what/how w.r.t. promoting MinGW ports. The MinGW ports maintenance, > > implementation and distribution belong to you and Kees. > > I think that this MinGW native ports is a great thing. > > Unfortunately I no longer have the time or need for such ports, Who knows.... maybe..... > but I > once had and spent alot of time and effort in producing the ports > available at > http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/ported . > Although most packages there are now outdated, :) I still use some of these nice outdated binaries. > special care was taken > then to deal with the line-endings and other details as explained in > the above page. > > So I think that the diffs of the changes made by me at the time (which > were in many cases based on the analysis of the diffs of other ports > available then) are still valuable for this effort. So I've put them al= l > on http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/ported/ for > your convenience. Great! And much valuable. Thank you. You don't have a lot of time, but I'm glad to see that you still contribu= te to port softwares. It's like a virus isn't it :) > BTW, the convention taken regarding the line endings was: > - read/write hand-written files (configuration files, scripts, etc.) i= n > text mode > - read/write raw data files (input/output streams) in binary. So, CR/LF for hand-written files and LF otherwise? Currently, I've adopted LF-only. I cannot use my home-made Notepad, but my favorite editor (SciTE :) does all the good job. > Of course that the later is arguable, and probably doesn't make much > sense nowadays with the availabilty of MSYS for building unix stuff. It > all depends of what you want to do with the ports. I don't really know what are the pros and the cons. LF-only seems to simplify things, at first glance. Manu. |