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RE: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:52:25 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages
- References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F54A0@exchange.timesys.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > IMO, these packages should be in a special new category (I propose the
> > name "@Profiles" to make setup put this at the top, but I don't know
> > if setup will parse this correctly). I've attached a few sample
> > profile packages for commonly requested configurations with the
> > corresponding setup.hints. We could probably concentrate them all in
> > one directory (thus the '@ ...' lines at the top of the hint files).
> > All the .tar.bz2 files are the same empty tarball -- it's the
> > setup.hints that are important.
>
> Wow. This sounds neat.
Yeah, I was surprised myself at how well it works out...
> This would be particularly nice if setup.exe were modified so that on an
> initial installation, it showed a "profile selection page" first,
> instead of the package selection page.
>
> The profile selection page would let the user choose one or more
> profiles to install; the packages selected would be a union of the
> dependencies from the profiles. There could be a check box for
> "advanced package selection" that the user could select if they wanted
> to go to the regular package selection page.
>
> Re-running setup.exe (for updates, as opposed to an installation)
> would skip the profile selection page and go straight to the package
> selection page.
This sounds like the kind of support we might eventually have, but for
now, placing the "@Profiles" category first (which ought to happen
automatically anyway), and maybe having setup auto-expand it, should be
enough.
Igor
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