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Re: Mo Dejong's install problems
- To: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Mo Dejong's install problems
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:38:34 -0500
- References: <200003282023.MAA10141@cygnus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003281529510.7648-100000@abomination.cygnus.com>
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 03:41:21PM -0800, Mo DeJong wrote:
>Ron, do you want some help writing this installer? I think I could take
>the code you already wrote and whip up a graphical installer that does
>the same thing. Interested?
This might be an interesting project for the future but, for now, I want
to release what we have.
There has been a lot of discussion on what the installer should or shouldn't
do. We zeroed in on a minimum subset of functionality and, for the most part,
Ron's installer matches that.
If we stop to reevaluate every time somebody else joins in we're never going
to get anywhere.
I don't really care if most users are used to a graphical application. I'm
just going for minimal functionality right now.
We'll be checking the installer into CVS soon. I expect that it will really
start taking off after that point.
I'm really very interested in a full-screen, whiz-bang, rpm, dpkg, AI
installer but I'd like to see it after we've released Cygwin 1.1.0.
cgf