Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:02:34 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Nicholas Wourms" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4QM38L03949 > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 5:12 AM > To: Robert Collins; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Setup as recommended reading > > > Hi, > > Before you do bow out, I think people need to realize, as it > was stated before, that you are not trying to reinvent the > wheel. Yes, RPM is great for many things, but the goal of > setup isn't to be rpm. In fact, IIRC it was stated that once > someone had volunteered to support rpm for Cygwin and it was > proved stable, there might be some discussion as to making > setup.exe based on the rpm api. There has been some > discussion lately regarding this port and I believe someone > has even volunteered to do it. Yes. In fact both rpm and have been -partially- ported to cygwin. AFAIK neither has been converted to deal with in-use-file-replacements, which is a required capability to be a cygwin-linked installer (for somewhat obvious reasons). > Be that as it may, it will still be much time before this is > implimented, IF it is implemented. So let Rob actually > perfect what he has before asking for heaps of new features. > IMHO, setup seems to be working nicely for the most part, > minus a few bugs here and there. I honestly think there are > more critical issues to focus on then the "fluff" of UI, such > as getting a fast, stable SysV IPC system integrated into > cygwin and releasing an updated binutils with better dynamic > library capabilities. > Feel free to disagree.... The installer is fairly complete. Howeever I really want to make it easy for maintainers, so allowing the use of the debian build tools, or the rpm build tools is a high priority. Otherwise the maintainers here will, by necessity, end up inventing the wheel. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/