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From: | "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net> |
To: | "James Renton" <jrenton AT castel DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) |
Date: | Tue, 3 May 2005 12:40:18 +0100 |
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James Renton wrote: > What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/? There are very many installer builders for windows, but none that I have seen manage many independently updated packages with interdependencies, in the way that our current setup does. Max. > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple > elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: >> I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report >> to this person assuming they were the maintainer. My question as I've >> asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility >> of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader > >> and keyboard. Many of the buttons and controlls do not get focus and >> can't be opperated in the normal manner. > > Did you happen to follow the "setup.exe sucks" thread over in > cygwin-apps? Basically, it boils down to the fact that I and others are > not really thrilled with setup.exe in its current form. While it is an > impressive program in some ways, the UI is (apparently) too > non-intuitive and the mean-time between bug fixes is too long. > > Are you aware of a setup-like program out there which "gets it right" as > far as UI is concerned? It would be nice to transition to an > open-sources alternative which was actively supported. > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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