X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:23:25 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's
Message-ID:	<20060820142325.GA11752@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<c09652430608190000g5a963776o47034c2298359ca8 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<c09652430608190000g5a963776o47034c2298359ca8@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.11
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:00:36AM +0200, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
>One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching
>the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do
>believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks).

There has recently been a rash of generalizations about cygwin where
people feel empowered to speak for a collection of users as if they were
a representative.  I've actually talked to more than one person who
thought that setup.exe is "slick".

I don't agree that this is the case and I doubt that the reason
"companies" distribute their own version of Cygwin is because of
setup.exe.  Most situations that we see here are due to a company or
individual who wants to just use the Cygwin DLL with their own product
and doesn't want to provide an installer which installs the whole
distribution.

YMMV, but, in this particular case, unless you have actual examples, I
think you are starting from a flawed premise.  That is not to say that
setup.exe doesn't need to be improved, however.

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/

- Raw text -