From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: CD-based distribution (was Another website....)
16 Aug 1998 06:48:13 -0700 :
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References:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
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To:	Robert Read <rread AT datarithm DOT com>, Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	Marcus Brown <Brown AT sw DOT mke DOT etn DOT com>, Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk,
	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 02:48 PM 8/13/98 -0700, Robert Read wrote:
>
>That is a good point; it does make sense for the install process to be
>windows aware because, after all, this is windows software. A
>product like that might also help developers building stand alone
>applications with cygwin to distribute them easier.  Does anyone know if
>it would be difficult to extend rpm with windows specific features like
>registry settings?
>
>robert
>

Its been a while since I looked at rpm but my recollection is that it 
allows you to include pre and/or post install scripts to do "whatever".
If at all possible, I think that any windows specific actions that need
to happen on the install should be a script run by rpm to do the registry 
stuff, etc.  This way, one would create Cygwin32-specific packages that
know how to install themselves under Cygwin32 and Windows but rpm doesn't
have to know anything specific about Windows or Cygwin32 (or HP-UX, Sun 
Solaris, etc. for that matter...)



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