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 Message-ID: <3D503B06.60005@wanadoo.fr> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:09:26 +0100 From: bruno patin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup and unix References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, bruno patin wrote: > > > >>hi, >> >>We work on a project that have to run and be distributed under >>windows/cygwin and different flavors of unix (for the time being, >>solaris and linux). We do want to have the same tool to distribute our >>project over these platforms and try to use free approach so I come to >>my subject. has port of the setup code been made on unices ? I try to >>use the source on my linux box but, if the configure do it ok, the >>compilation halt on the getopt.c file. So have something been done ? >> >>Another question, is there a non interactive mode of setup (one you can >>use on the command line) ? >> >>thanks for your work >> >> > >setup is tailored for cygwin packages. Why not just write a shell script? > Igor > > the easy selection of packages, the standardisation of the distribution formats, the gui, the existence of a configuration file to define exctly what version of what package to use As the development is a collaborative one it is easier to use a well defined product than write another one (if adaptation of the setup tool is not too hard). bruno -- 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/