Re: cbmconvert is now on GitHub

Am Sonntag, 14. November 2021, 18:39:31 CET schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
> Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:00:47PM +0100, groepaz_at_gmx.net wrote:
> >Am Samstag, 13. November 2021, 22:55:31 CET schrieb Rhialto:
> >> On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 16:44:25 +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> >> > I just created a repository for my Commodore file format conversion
> >> > tool
> >> > that was last updated in 2006:
> >> > https://github.com/dr-m/cbmconvert/
> >> 
> >> Nice! When you're happy with the state of things, can you tag a release?
> >> Then I can update the entry in pkgsrc for it. I see it is currently
> >> still using the latest version on zimmers.net (2.1.1), so it is about
> >> time to update :)
> >
> >also, if you have any plans with it or require this or that for a pull
> >request to be accepted - please state so in the readme. i have one or two
> >small things in mind i always wanted to add :)
> 
> The main motivation of this was to accept a pull request. I think that
> it would be good to wait for a couple of weeks or months.
> 
> I noticed that cbmconvert has been evicted from Debian.
> 
> I still do not have any good idea how to create releases, or how to
> translate the manual pages on Windows. Even though CMake is very easy to
> use, it might be too much hassle for Windows users to install it and a
> free-as-in-beer compiler.
> 
> Would CPack be useful on the BSDs?
> 
> Today I spent some time to learn CTest. There now are some tests for
> dealing with empty files. I could not figure out how to make the test
> run on Windows; help on that would be welcome. (On Windows, CMake builds
> different CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE in separate directory hierarchies.)

all i need is a makefile and a readme :)

you can build windows releases using github actions, triggered by each commit 
(thats what we do for VICE too)

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