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 sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: setup wishes -- any volunteers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:14:02 +1100 Message-ID: Thread-Topic: setup wishes -- any volunteers Thread-Index: AcCzIupF1kHlfo7DQTeSTKpL7Ew9RwAAPmxQAABn/WA= From: "Robert Collins" To: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id SAA08761 And after all that I forgot to put in when & where we start using it :] > > target 1) setup.exe can read and install (possibly via > bootstrapping) a > dpkg package. > target 2) setup.exe can check dependecies on a dpkg package. > target 3) "workstation" "developer" "server" "everything" > install sets. > target 4) make it pretty * > > Rob > > * I don't care about this bit. It's not terribly important. > Ease of use > & reliability are important. > Target 1 should be a drop in for the current setup - it'll still read tarballs, it's just had a new format added. For target 2 to be used, we will need to repackage the existing packages with dependency information. After that it could be (should be) used . For target 3 to be used, we will need no changes to existing packages. Rob