Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <390AA2D8.70D69C52@vinschen.de> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:52:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Time for a new DLL release References: <20000428171049 DOT F3289 AT cygnus DOT com> <20000428174044 DOT A3864 AT cygnus DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:12:46PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote: > >[...] > >included. What I am really talking about is not just porting it, but > >creating a version that is fully integrated with the standard Windows > >"Add/Remove Programs" functionality, wininet and possibly even the Microsoft > >Installer event model. Do you think that each package which is installed as a part of the local cygwin install should have it's own entry in the windows "Add/Remove Programs" tab? Just a question. It would completely replace the standard rpm database then, isn't it? Nevertheless rpm itself has to be a cygwin app, IMO, because I would like to be able to use it on the command line. Chris Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 02:31:20PM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote: > >[...] > >know" which RPMS needed to be downloaded. At any rate, I am willing to > >help out on the GUI installer side. > > Experience has shown me to run screaming in the other direction whenever > I hear someone say that "The GUI should just be easy." I would gladly appreciate any help in building a Windows GUI. I had the bad luck to be forced to write Macintosh/Windows GUIs the last seven years and I'm cured of them! Whatever you do there is always a user which is graining about the position or the ambiguous text of a button. Umm, no, I'm not _really_ embittered... Larry Hall wrote: > As for the GUI, there has been one > (and now there's at least 2 with the advent of GNOME) that we could key off > of. There may be issues with what the underlying GUI engine is (GTK, X, > whatever) and that may make it difficult or otherwise undesirable to use > but at the very least, it should be possible to at least "follow the pattern" > to create a new GUI that suits any Cygwin specific need. I have heard that a Tcl/Tk GUI shall already exist. Maybe we could use it in any way? Corinna