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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:49:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Read my post again. I was working on less than 10MB
network space. The installer fits on a floppy. It's
basically just the dll, ash, bash, and a few
shell-utils so that somebody can figure out what
cygwin looks like without having to do the big
download. 
Doesn't even use full packages. It would be pointless
to put that kind of minimal functionality into
setup.exe

BTW I've already got the setup src on my machine and
am getting a feel for it. Hopefully I'll figure out
how to patch something useful soon. I know a couple
guys who like the cygwin shell but don't need
compilers, squid, postgres, etc. and so I'm still
interested in making minimal package-based installs
easier. 
cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net will disappear or morph
when that happens.

> I would urge anyone who thinks they need to spin
> their own installer
> to instead think about contributing to the current
> setup.exe code base.
> 
> It seems crazy to me that anyone would try to
> promote something else
> merely because setup.exe lacks some functionality.
> 
> cgf
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Joshua
> Franklin wrote:
> >I've done it, too.  I was working in bit of network
> space and wanted
> >the basics of Cygwin without using much disk space.
>  I used Nullsoft's
> >Free installer, NSIS:
> >
> >http://www.nullsoft.com/free/
> >
> >I decided my "cygwin lite" might possibly be useful
> enough for other
> >people to use so I put up a SourceForge project
> page.
> 

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