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From: | "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net> |
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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 13:52:15 +0100 |
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Jani Tiainen wrote: > Why to reinvent wheel..? > > You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb), > RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge. > > All working, proven technologies. Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then? Also, what about a GUI? I would very much like to see an RPM or DEB based Cygwin, but I've never had a suitably large chunk of free time to devote to such an undertaking. I recently tried to get rpm-4.4.1 working on Cygwin, but although it compiled, it segfaulted immediately on startup. Of course, really we would need a native Windows port, which would be even harder. Max. -- 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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