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From: Cesar Rabak <crabak AT acm DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: install djgpp on windows xp
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:47:52 -0300
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DJ Delorie escreveu:
>>If he doesn't like DOS, bash, or other VM windows, maybe MinGW or
>>CygWin tools would be better? 
> 
> 
> Both of those, like DJGPP, run in command windows.  All three (djgpp,
> cygwin, mingw) offer GUI-based IDEs.  They're not much different in
> that respect, as they're all based on gcc.  The only real advantage
> cygwin has, IMHO, is a windows-style setup/install program, but
> there's no reason we can't have one of those for DJGPP too.
> 
> I expect people who want to write software to be able to LEARN NEW
> THINGS.  One of those is how to use a command window.  If you can't
> figure that out, most programming is probably going to be beyond you.
> Think of it as an acceptance test ;-)

I accept thisą ;-) but in the XP world it may help us to remember that 
sometimes the person that installs the packages (specially in a lab) is 
not a programmer but a sysdamin. In this cases a installer, the nearest 
to the customs of the platform may make a difference.

I never gave a more serious thought in doing this for DJGPP because I 
can't a way of creating a dynamic packager. The nearer thing we have, I 
believe, is the 'install.exe' program but a long time I don't use it so 
I don't know how robust is it right now.

HTH

--
Cesar Rabak

[1] with the obvious pun _intended_ ;-D