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Subject: AW: [bulk] - Re: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe
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>Von: Cliff
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014 16:19
>An: cygwin
>Betreff: [bulk] - Re: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during
>uninstall in setup.exe

[...]

>One solution to this would be to reimplement it as two separate parts -
>a non-Cygwin envelope (which could even be installed as an msi) and a
>Cygwin-based package maintainer.  The Cygwin-based part would be a
>completely separate Cygwin installation, with its own cygwin1.dll, and a
>minimal set of utilities, and would not interfere with the main
>installation.
>The non-cygwin wrapper would simply install/update this mini-Cygwin
>system and invoke the Cygwin-based package maintainer.

I second this idea.

>The package maintainer would be based on the existing setup.exe,

I think this is not that good. If you rewrite the tool you should throw away ballast and use the chance to include new helpful things like a clean interface to an installation config file which allows cloning of existent installations.

Just my 2 cent
Norbert


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