Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/03/10:13:59
Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
> 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?
Sorry to say but I'm too busy with my current Planner porting (and
enhancing). And I use less and less cygwin every day.
> Also, what about a GUI?
I'm not familiar with RPM thingies, but I know that there exists GUI's
for them.
For DEB there is of course aptitude (curses-based) and at least Synaptic
, GTK+ based.
> 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.
In my experience porting GTK+ is pretty easy, if lucky it goes without
real pain...
I think that one of the feasible could be some GUI + needed packages to
put up in single setupfile.. (similiar to "net install" images for Linux
distros). After that it launches GUI and let user to select rest of
packages.
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Jani Tiainen
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