X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4994679D.9070300@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:17:01 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Brant Young wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have launched a opensource project -- CygWine ( a cygwin package > management utility, project homepage: http://cygwine.googlecode.com ) > > CygWine 1.0 beta was just released, you can download the executable > and browse screenshots at http://cygwine.googlecode.com. > > Compared to cygwin official install tool -- setup.exe, CygWine is more > easy to use, has more intuitive UI. I like the nice wx-based GUI, that's really pretty. > Currently, some of setup.exe features not supported by CygWine, I will > add more functions in the next release. > > I hope you will like it, suggestions and contributions are welcome. I'm taking a quick browse through the code. I see that you've based it on chunks of the core setup.exe code, somewhat refactored and restructured. I wonder if we couldn't merge the two codebases, in such a way that there's one common 'setup engine' with a couple of alternative GUI front-ends; that might be a neat way to fix up all the missing features and make sure there is thoroughly consistent behaviour between the two different installers. You know your own code better than I do - do you think that would be practical? cheers, DaveK -- 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/