Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <768A0EA6FF8CB34FA522978966E5D52E021370A9@bwam02msx.ae.ge.com> From: "Fletcher, Bob (GEAE, IT)" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Cc: "'Gord Wait'" Subject: RE: A request? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:43:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I'll jump in anyway. To the original question; I'd like to violate group etiquette and throw in a big "Me to". Having a cleaner versioning process would be a big benefit to cygwin. Also to the original question, a suggestion. I have the same problem. I've taken the approach of running 'setup' on a box, then capturing the files, my preferred mount points, path settings and anything else I want to change, and building a Microsoft format "msi' package. I can put this on a server and distribute it to internal users and they get exactly my configuration. BTW, all you really need is a zip of the cygwin directory and .reg file dump of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions The MSI is just a bit easier to install, and I can pput in the shortcuts for people. Third, in response to cgf >Sorry but you are not a customer. You're a user. There is a subtle >difference. Being a customer implies some seller/buyer relationship >which would entitle you to some kind of service from the seller. Cygwin >is offered as-is to you with nothing guaranteed other than you get the >source. I'd love to be a customer! I keep asking Redhat about it, but there's no product to buy. I think that if you offered a cleaner distribution, you'd have a viable product. It works for Redhat linux.... ActiveState Perl, Tcl ect. Other companies offer similar Unix-like products, but cygwin is better. :) ( Would someone at Redhat please copy this to Rebecca Ward AT redhat. I can't find her email, I doubt she reads the list.) Bob. g GE Aircraft Engines ______________________________________________ Bob Fletcher Analysis and Engineering Systems GE Aircraft Engines, 1 Neumann Way, Evendale, OH 45215 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:03 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: A request? On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>If you want predictable behavior, then you should probably burn a CD >>with the source code as well and pass it around. >>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You don't need to put the source code on a CD supplied to co-workers. cgf -- 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/ -- 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/