Mail Archives: djgpp/2004/03/29/07:01:26
NoEmailAds AT execpc DOT com (Chris Giese) wrote in message news:<40678015 DOT 23789967 AT news DOT voyager DOT net>...
> Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org> wrote:
>
> {snips}
>
> >DJ Delorie escreveu:
> >> The only real advantage
> >> cygwin has, IMHO, is a windows-style setup/install program, but
> >> there's no reason we can't have one of those for DJGPP too.
> >>
> >I never gave a more serious thought in doing this for DJGPP because I
> >can't a way of creating a dynamic packager. The nearer thing we have, I
> >believe, is the 'install.exe' program but a long time I don't use it so
> >I don't know how robust is it right now.
>
> I like the current packaging scheme of relatively small .ZIP files
> containing independent sub-systems (C compiler, C++ compiler, Make,
> sed, etc.) I hope the current packaging scheme will be retained even
> if a new scheme is created.
>
> As a dial-up user, I think putting everything into a single, gigantic,
> self-extracting .EXE file is a terrible idea...even though a lot of
> other projects (*cough* MinGW) do this.
If desperate for automated setup then a batch file could be used to
create the directory, unzip the files to the right place, perhaps even
alter autoexec if need be, not sure.
I've always got on fine with the current way of doing things, it's
just a question of following some instructions after all.
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