| delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:27:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >I know this has been said before, but what about leveraging of an >existing packaging format - dpkg has all the capabilities you cite, and >they had a win32 project in place at one time. I'mm willing to polish my >elbows this weekend and see if I can make something work : but first I >would like a little buy-in that this is a good route to take. This gives you dependencies but I don't see that it provides you with anything else. You'd have to build a non-cygwin version of rpm to handle all of this. I don't know how feasible that would be. It wouldn't be politically expedient for me to say no to RPM, of course. If you can come up with a plan to use it, I'd be interested. I think this is the way I answered the last time this question was raised. At least I hope I did. cgf
| webmaster | delorie software privacy |
| Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |