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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:09:26 +0100
From: bruno patin <bruno DOT patin AT wanadoo DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: setup and unix
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, bruno patin wrote:
>
>  
>
>>hi,
>>
>>We work on a project that have to run and be distributed under
>>windows/cygwin and different flavors of unix (for the time being,
>>solaris and linux). We do want to have the same tool to distribute our
>>project over these platforms and try to use free approach so I come to
>>my subject. has port of the setup code been made on unices ? I try to
>>use the source on my linux box but, if the configure do it ok, the
>>compilation halt on the getopt.c file. So have something been done ?
>>
>>Another question, is there a non interactive mode of setup (one you can
>>use on the command line) ?
>>
>>thanks for your work
>>    
>>
>
>setup is tailored for cygwin packages.  Why not just write a shell script?
>	Igor
>  
>
the easy selection of packages,
the standardisation of the distribution formats,
the gui,
the existence of a configuration file to define exctly what version of 
what package to use

As the development is a collaborative one it is easier to use a well 
defined product than write another one (if adaptation of the setup tool 
is not too hard).

bruno


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