X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4680337E.7080508@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:28:30 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta References: <200706251921.l5PJL5Z23253@mrvideo.vidiot.com> In-Reply-To: <200706251921.l5PJL5Z23253@mrvideo.vidiot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Vidiot wrote: > Larry: > >> You may be surprised to find out that these ideas are not new. What's been >> missing in the past has been patches that do something like what you suggest >> in a compelling way. If you're interested, you may be able to remedy that. > > I'm happy to read that the idea isn't new. > > As much as I'd like to update the setup program, I know zero about Windoze > programming, and really prefer to keep it that way. I'm a Unix programmer, > born an bred. If you were talking Sun package install, then it would be > right up my alley. > > And since I suspect the setup program requires Windoze programming knowledge, > I would not be any help in adding that feature. > > It must not be easy, or it would have been done by now? The 'setup.exe' code is in a "challenged" state which can make adding features "challenging". Perhaps you'd like to provide a Sun installer and then port it to Cygwin. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/