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From: Jani Tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
Subject:  Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
Date:  Tue, 03 May 2005 17:12:13 +0300
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Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
> Jani Tiainen wrote:
> 
>> Why to reinvent wheel..?
>>
>> You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
>> RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
>>
>> All working, proven technologies.
> 
> 
> Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then?

Sorry to say but I'm too busy with my current Planner porting (and 
enhancing). And I use less and less cygwin every day.

> Also, what about a GUI?

I'm not familiar with RPM thingies, but I know that there exists GUI's 
for them.

For DEB there is of course aptitude (curses-based) and at least Synaptic 
, GTK+ based.

> I would very much like to see an RPM or DEB based Cygwin, but I've never 
> had a suitably large chunk of free time to devote to such an 
> undertaking. I recently tried to get rpm-4.4.1 working on Cygwin, but 
> although it compiled, it segfaulted immediately on startup. Of course, 
> really we would need a native Windows port, which would be even harder.

In my experience porting GTK+ is pretty easy, if lucky it goes without 
real pain...

I think that one of the feasible could be some GUI + needed packages to 
put up in single setupfile.. (similiar to "net install" images for Linux 
distros). After that it launches GUI and let user to select rest of 
packages.

-- 

Jani Tiainen


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