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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:28:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Lapo Luchini cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: qmail port successfull In-Reply-To: <3ED5C5F4.7080208@lapo.it> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 29 May 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > [snip] > P.S.: maybe it's just that I'm using FreeBSD more and more, but its > "ports system" seems to me better each time I think of it (it is a > collection of some 8000 Makefiles that contains instruction to download > source form original website, apply patch if necessary, compile and > install as a system package). > It is true, of course, that most of the people out there wouln't like to > compile things, but when it's an automatic non-interactive script, it > can be a little better maybe. Hey, why not put the source in the binary package, and have the postinstall script compile and install the binaries? Nothing prevents you from doing that now, AFAICS, and, though a bit weird, it's not much worse than extracting a tarball (as mingw-runtime does). Package dependences will have to be considered carefully, however -- the binary package will depend on at least gcc and make, perhaps autotools and others... > This reminds me that maybe it could be cool to have an "install" option > in "type 2 packages" that installs them directly, without bothering to > have a "fake" local setup.ini, starting setup, let it install the > package... this would need some command line "installed package db" > management of some kind. Or it is already out there, only I didn't > notice it? Isn't that what the RPM port eventually hopes to accomplish? ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/