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 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Cygwin package management References: <200412271301 DOT iBRD1kl10849 AT esds DOT vss DOT fsi DOT com> <41D01F3F DOT 40801 AT luc DOT ac DOT be> <41D022C0 DOT 70508 AT luc DOT ac DOT be> <87oegfpx91 DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <6 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20041227104154 DOT 04bd4900 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Organization: Jan at Appel Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:08:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041227104154.04bd4900@pop.prospeed.net> (Larry Hall's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:46:00 -0500") Message-ID: <87d5wvpvvi.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Larry Hall writes: > You left out of your simple description the postinstall (and > preremove) scripts. That's not to say that someone can't make > scripts to perform the equivalent of what 'setup.exe' does or that > your python scripts don't already. Yes, I forgot. I only added /etc/postinstall to cyg-apt when I learnt that people were actually using it on Cygwin; running those on my cygwin tree on linux does not work. > It is worthwhile noting that this list doesn't support home- > grown install scripts. One should feel free to develop these but please > don't expect us to debug'em. :-) Of course. Otoh, providing a unix environment and then expecting people to resistancelessly accept a setup.exe gui to do package management is asking for trouble ;-) Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- 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/