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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: text setup Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:18:35 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20030919190018.GA22841@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Christopher Faylor wrote >>Is any text-mode setup developed? Or at least planned? I would increase a >>lot the value of Cygwin. > > I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but I'm working on a > perl-based+exec front end 'cygupdate' program. It requires an existing > installation with such things as perl and cp involved, though. Sounds promising. I'm looking forward to try it out. > I've been using it for all of my updates for a while with no problem but > it is not quite polished enoug for wide distribution yet. There are > still some problems with replacing running binaries, like for instance, > the cygupdate.exe itself. AFAIK setup handles it using some kind of scheduling. I guess that you could adapt the same solution, if it makes any sense. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/