X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authenticated: #652914 Message-ID: <44D3D905.8030500@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:32:21 -0700 From: Oliver Wienand User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: making a cygwin install. References: <03D3B32F0D0D024791C1EE97D087E90907A99529 AT EXCH01 DOT purdue DOT lcl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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 > Creating a self-extracting .exe that installs parts of Cygwin is not a > very Cygwin-friendly way of distributing software, as it won't play nicely > with existing Cygwin installations (see ). > The approved way of installing Cygwin is using the setup.exe tool. I totally agree that one should use Cygwin setup.exe to install a Cygwin-based application. However, you can just wrap setup.exe and a local repository with a base package holding all the packages to install with some Windows install program to get single executable setup package. ... Oliver -- 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/