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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:20:21 -0600
From: Jonathan Turkanis <technews AT kangaroologic DOT com>
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Subject: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly  anytime soon?
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Hi,

I'm writing a little bit about the Cygwin platform for an O'Reilly C++ book, 
scheduled for release later this year. Since I've found package selection using 
setup.exe to be a little tricky, I've written a detailed decription about how to 
install everything, how to install just the development tools, and how to 
install just g++, make and their prerequisites. I'd like the book to be useful 
for several years, however, so I'm a little nervous about providing information 
that is likely to change soon. Therefore I'd like to know if there are plans to 
change the installation process in the near future. For example, it would be 
very helpful to know how stable the following features of the current 
installation process are:

   - Name of setup utility: setup.exe
   - Link to setup.exe from cygwin.com: "Install Cygwin Now"
   - Link to setup help page from cygwin.com: "get help on using setup.exe"
   - URL of setup help page: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html
   - Tree view for package selection, including toggling between "Default", 
"Install", "Reinstall" and "Unistall" and the "Bin?" label above the column of 
checkboxes for binary packages.

As a fallback I can always say "to install Cygwin, go to cygwin.com and follow 
the instructions" -- but I'd rather give more substantive advice if possible.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Jonathan Turkanis

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