Hi,
I'm trying to package snow for Gentoo Linux. I'd like to ask a few things
- Distros usually don't install files directly to real filesystem, instead install them to a temporary directory (in a protected environment in case of Gentoo) then copy them to real filesystem. Usually we pass DESTDIR to make and expect it to install to DESTDIR instead of real filesystem. I attach a patch for that purpose. Not really familiar with snow so it may have bugs or just incorrect. Please have a look.
- On Gentoo we do compile and install in two separate phases. Snow makefile currently do it all in target "install". It would be great if it could be splitted into two phases.
- Can we have static URLs for fetching snowballs please? We (Gentoo users) let our package manager fetch the source code automatically but it's not enough intelligent to extract filename from POST response. I think I can work around this, but it would be nicer to have static URLs (easier for mirroring too)
- Last question for a snow newbie (that's me): is snow hosted in some kind of source repository like hg, git or svn? How to properly contribute code to snow?
Thanks
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