From: hughw AT scoutsys DOT com (Hugh Winkler) Subject: Installshield 5 Sep 1998 05:50:22 -0700 Message-ID: <000701bdd85a$3e140e80$0c0aa8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@harry.scoutsys.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: I would like to second, third, and fourth the sentiments others have expressed here, that Cygnus ought to dump Installshield in favor of a zip file, a .reg file, and a README describing changes to make to scripts in case you install somewhere besides the default. A. The Installshield setup is *very fragile*. I have *never* successfully run it to completion. The only time it ever has completed, I stepped it over a fault in my debugger. And I did in fact have a clean temp directory. And just now, testing the usertools distribution, some other crazy bug crashes it. B. When it crashes, you have no recourse. There's no way to get inside the Installshield compressed files without their tools. C. It's *painfully* slow on NT. Long mysterious pauses of no activity. Why use a 16-bit installer for Win32 machines, anyway? Everyone using cygwin32 is capable of understanding what is needed to get the cygwin tree installed, but we can't workaround the Installshield "shield". Here's how the install should work: 1. Unzip the directory tree files. Put it in C:\cygnus\b19 or somewhere else. 2. If you put it in the default place, run the .reg file that describes the setup of HKCU\Software\Cygnus solutions\Cygwin.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\..., and same for HKLM. To run it, just double click it. If we installed elsewhere in step 1, need to edit this file first. The README tells us how to do it. 3. If you installed somewhere else, also modify the cygnus.bat file accordingly. Again the README can describe the changes in a sentence. 4. Make an explorer shortcut to cygnus.bat. Thanks to the Cygnus guys for their well-intentioned efforts, but this procedure would be a lot more stable and easier than the current procedure! Hugh Winkler Scout Systems, Inc. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".