On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2003-07-11T10:25-0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > ) On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: > ) > requires: libncurses6 cygwin > ) ^^^^^^^^^^^ > ) Shouldn't this be libncurses7 already? > > naim should function with any version of ncurses since 4.0 (libncurses[5-7] > are all ncurses-5.x releases). I was confused to see such a major > distinction between two 5.2's and 5.3 in Cygwin (major enough to warrant > separate package names), so I just picked the oldest one that people might > have installed that didn't have the word "compatibility" in it, which was 6. > Any of the ones available now should work equally well, so I'll bump it to > libncurses7 if 5 and 6 are being phased out--it's just that there's no need > to require 7 if you already have 5 or 6 installed.
Fair enough, I was just reading Chuck's message (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00135.html>), so I thought it was relevant. > ) > category: Communication Net > ) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ) I don't know if creation of new categories is approved... At a guess, > ) "Net" is the same as "Communication", anyway. > > My thinking is that since real time chat is "all the rage" these days, it > might be wise to draw attention to the chat clients distributed with Cygwin, > including naim and ircII. Gentoo Linux puts naim in "net-im" and NetBSD puts > it in "chat," both separate from an actual "net" category in their > respective trees. This will have to be decided on a higher level than me... > ) > (no patches for Cygwin, just ./configure --prefix=/usr && make install-strip) > ) The .sh script should also extract the tarball into a directory with the > ) name of the package (i.e., naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10/) and (technically) apply > > Would something like: > tar -zxvf naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11.tar.gz && cd naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11 && patch -p1 > <../naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11-1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make install-strip > be acceptable? (patch does no op if you feed it an empty stdin) Perfect. > ) > Packaging procedure: > ) > To create a Slackware pkgtool-compatible tarball, simply run: > ) > ./configure \ > ) > '--prefix=/usr' \ > ) > 'CFLAGS=-O20 -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations' \ > ) > && make tgz > ) > If configure is run under Cygwin, make tgz will adjust itself to conform to > ) > Cygwin standards. Use make cyg instead of make tgz to produce a complete > ) > (source and binary) Cygwin release. > ) What will be the version number the name of the tarball produced by the > ) above? > > It will automatically append -1 to the naim version number. That is, if you > extract naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10.tar.gz and ./configure ... && make cyg, it will > produce the same* naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10-cygwinrelease.tar.bz2 on the web site > now. > > * naim extracts the arguments passed to ./configure from config.status when > it generates CYGWIN-PATCHES/naim-${VERSION}.README, so if you use > different settings there will be slight variances in the README as well as > in the binary package. I may have missed this, but do you plan to keep the "cyg*" in the package version? Basically, the "-*" part of the version is for the Cygwin patchlevel, so the "cyg*" seems pretty redundant (OTOH, looks like the "-*" part will always be "-1" in your case). > ) Other than the minor nits for the setup.hint (libncurses7) and the patch > ) (README), the only problem is the build script in the source package. > ) Once that is fixed, I think the packaging will be ok. I can't do a > ) functionality review, as I don't use the above messengers. > > If you run "nirc" by itself, it will attempt to sign you on to an EFnet IRC > server using your Windows login as the nickname. You don't need an account > to use IRC, just an unused name (you can use /connect othername if your > login name is in use). nirc will automatically /join #naim upon startup if > you have no .nircrc file, and anything you type that doesn't begin with a > forward slash will be sent to that chat channel (which usually has a couple > naim users milling about ;). > > My cable[modem] has been out for the past hour, so I'll queue this and hold > off on .cyg11 until after I hear back about the install script and > "Communication." I'm sure you've given it that much testing before submitting the package. What I meant was that I couldn't give it more than a cursory "run; type something; exit" kind of testing, since I'm not familiar with the tools and their capabilities. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
