Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] dos2unix

[Erwin W. <wat...@xs...>]

Op 22-2-2012 23:29, Keith Marshall schreef:
> On 22/02/12 18:59, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> The current mingw-cygutils-dos2unix package ...
> The current package is called "mingw32-cygutil-dos2unix"; I assume your
> "mingw-..." is an accidental omission, but just in case, you need to
>
>    s/mingw/mingw32/g
>
> in all instances please.

I meant "mingw32".

>
>> ... has one alias "mingw-dos2unix".
> That's not what I see:
>
>    <package name="mingw32-cygutils-dos2unix" alias="cygutils-dos2unix">

You are right. Actually I was looking at the msys version of the 
cygutils xml file when I wrote that:
<package name="msys-cygutils-dos2unix" alias="msys-dos2unix">

>> The name of the new package is "mingw-dos2unix".
> That needs to be "mingw32-dos2unix", so you may rewrite the header as:
>
>    <package name="mingw32-dos2unix"
>      alias="dos2unix cygutils-dos2unix mingw32-cygutils-dos2unix">
>
> (You are allowed only one "alias" attribute, but it may specify multiple
> aliases, separated by spaces).

Because there is an msys version and a mingw32 version, I was thinking 
to omit the "dos2unix" alias. A user will have to select either 
msys-dos2unix or mingw32-dos2unix.

So what I propose now is:

For the msys version:
<package name="msys-dos2unix" alias="msys-cygutils-dos2unix">
For the mingw32 version:
<package name="mingw32-dos2unix" alias="mingw32-cygutils-dos2unix 
cygutils-dos2unix">

This way it stays backward compatible. I could add an "dos2unix" alias 
to the latter, making the mingw32 version the default when somebody 
installs 'dos2unix'.


>> Where should I upload the new files? The current cygutils-dos2unix
>> package resides under 'Extension'. Should I put them under
>> Extension/dos2unix/5.3.2/. Or, because it's a contributed package,under
>> Contributed/dos2unix/5.3.2/
> Keeping it as an "extension" package seems best to me.
>

I have uploaded the package files under MSYS/Extension and MinGW/Extension.

Before I upload the xml files, does Charles need to modify the xml files 
for cygutils?

regards,

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/