[Privoxy-devel] Contributed binaries

[Fabian Keil]

Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal at 2rosenthals.com> wrote on 2022-09-25 at 23:49:13:

> Seeing that the Team hadn't produced a new OS/2 binary package since the 
> 3.0.21 release, and after building this for myself at the end of
> January, I thought it might make sense to package it (took long enough;
> I know).

Interesting.

Can you describe a bit how you created the package?
Did you need to apply any patches and maybe revert 74f8498812?
Did you need third-party software?
Did you create a OpenPGP signature file?
Did you run the regression tests with privoxy-regression-test.pl?
Do you intend to stick around to provide support?

> Anyway, I'd like to contribute the WarpIN package for distribution from
> SF (I do have an account there: lewisr). What's the procedure for
> submission?

Thanks a lot for the offer.

Technically a team member with SF admin privileges could add your
account to the SF project and give you upload privileges or you
could upload the package somewhere and a team member with upload
privileges could do the upload.

Afterwards I could sync the SF download mirror on the website
and update the RSS feed.

Before this happens we should probably discuss the details
and decide if we actually want to provide the package.

For example I used to create and upload binary packages for
FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD but as those platforms nowadays
have a proper package system which is more convenient to
use the packages were no longer downloaded frequently so I
stopped providing them again.

Do modern OS/2 systems have a convenient package system or
are users still used to download their software from various
third-party websites like it's done for Windows?

If that's the case it may be preferable to add a hint
to Privoxy's documentation.

> Thanks for this great tool which I've used daily for well over a decade.

I'm pleased to hear that.

Fabian
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