Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/07/16:27:48
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, bruno patin wrote:
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>>hi,
>>
>>We work on a project that have to run and be distributed under
>>windows/cygwin and different flavors of unix (for the time being,
>>solaris and linux). We do want to have the same tool to distribute our
>>project over these platforms and try to use free approach so I come to
>>my subject. has port of the setup code been made on unices ? I try to
>>use the source on my linux box but, if the configure do it ok, the
>>compilation halt on the getopt.c file. So have something been done ?
>>
>>Another question, is there a non interactive mode of setup (one you can
>>use on the command line) ?
>>
>>thanks for your work
>>
>>
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>setup is tailored for cygwin packages. Why not just write a shell script?
> Igor
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the easy selection of packages,
the standardisation of the distribution formats,
the gui,
the existence of a configuration file to define exctly what version of
what package to use
As the development is a collaborative one it is easier to use a well
defined product than write another one (if adaptation of the setup tool
is not too hard).
bruno
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