Re: [libdbi-devel] packaging libdbi, libdbi-drivers for Cygwin

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi David,

David Parker writes:
 > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:39:10 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
 > 
 > > - does anyone have objections against providing binary packages on SF?
 > 
 > Not I, at least for platforms where compiling from source is impractical (and
 > no viable packaging system is supported).
 > 

Actually Cygwin does have a packaging system, but they've got a strict
rule that no package may depend on external packages. PostgreSQL is
the only officially packaged database engine supported by
libdbi. However, offering libdbi and the PostgreSQL driver alone is a
bit lame. This is why I'm currently not willing to create an official
package.

 > > - is it ok to release binary packages that are built from CVS instead
 > >   of from the latest source release? Should we release the fixed
 > >   sources first?
 > 
 > I think this is fine when CVS has changes needed for binary ports to work, but
 > maybe we should just include a plain file download link as opposed to making
 > an official sourceforge file release.
 > 
 > Does this sound ok? If so I'll go ahead and put up the release you sent
 > yesterday.
 > 

Sounds ok to me. I'll upload the drivers package to the same location,
so once you're at it you may include that as well.

regards,
Markus

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