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Subject: Re: install djgpp on windows xp
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:48:05 GMT
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Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org> wrote:

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>DJ Delorie escreveu:
>> The only real advantage
>> cygwin has, IMHO, is a windows-style setup/install program, but
>> there's no reason we can't have one of those for DJGPP too.
>> 
>I never gave a more serious thought in doing this for DJGPP because I 
>can't a way of creating a dynamic packager. The nearer thing we have, I 
>believe, is the 'install.exe' program but a long time I don't use it so 
>I don't know how robust is it right now.

I like the current packaging scheme of relatively small .ZIP files
containing independent sub-systems (C compiler, C++ compiler, Make,
sed, etc.) I hope the current packaging scheme will be retained even
if a new scheme is created.

As a dial-up user, I think putting everything into a single, gigantic,
self-extracting .EXE file is a terrible idea...even though a lot of
other projects (*cough* MinGW) do this.