On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 18:23 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/3/2015 3:06 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > I just created a new 'announce' feature branch in cygport git: > > > > https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport/tree/announce > > > > The new 'announce' command generates an announcement template from > > the .cygport file based on NAME/VERSION/RELEASE, PKG_NAMES, and > > DESCRIPTION, to which you can easily add release-specific information, > > and then sends the message via an SMTP server. Note that this adds > > This is a nice feature. Thanks. > > > dependencies on perl-Authen-SASL, perl-MIME-tools, and > > perl-MIME-tools isn't in the distro yet.
Good point, I just moved it in from Ports. > If there's no mailserver configured, I'd like to see cygport save the > mbox file in the current directory and give an informational message, > rather than saving it in /tmp and giving an error message. Users might > want to simply paste it into an email, and the error message seems a > little unfriendly. First, I have already changed SMTP_SERVER to default to localhost, matching git's behaviour. (If it wasn't already painfully obvious, this is all modelled after git send-email.) Therefore, the error message now reflects an actual failure to send the message. As for the location of the mbox file, it's something I'm willing to consider. > P.S. You still haven't applied the texlive patch from > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-08/msg00019.html; is this just an > oversight, or do you need me to explain in more detail why it's needed? Oversight; August was a busy month. Applied. -- Yaakov
