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Subject: Re: Cygwin package management
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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")
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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.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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