Subject: RE: RPM installer (was Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86)
From: Bernard Dautrevaux <[email-masked]>
To: "'Charles Wilson'" <[email-masked]>, Dario Alcocer <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:54:43 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:55 PM
> To: Dario Alcocer
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: RPM installer (was Re: SETUP WIZARD FOR CYGWIN?XFREE86)
> 
> 
> Sounds cool, Dario.  How have your db and rpm ports been generated? 
> Which versions are you using, db-3 and rpm-4, or db-2 and 
> rpm-3 ?  Is db 
> built as a dll, or as a static lib ?
> 
> BTW, for your purposes perhaps you could pack up your bootstrap 
> environment into a self-extracting zip file ?
> 

Or as the installer user interface is tcl/tk-based, you can look at FreeWrap
(http://home.nycap.rr.com/dlabelle/freewrap/freewrap.html). Its neat and
works quite well; moreover the tcl/tk installer in this case do not NEED
cygwin, so can unpack the basic bootstrap environment without any problem).

HTH

	Bernard

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