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RE: Sounds interesting
On 28 June 2007 19:45, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:30:25PM +0200, Saro Engels wrote:
>> Matthew Woehlke schrieb:
>>> Saro Engels wrote:
>>>> And is there any possibility to integrate KDE-apps a bit tighter into
>>>> cygwin? I am thinking of trying to build some cygwin packages.
>>
>> That was just wrong what I wrote:
>> As far as I can see (cf.
>>
http://www.kdelibs.com/wiki/index.php/Building_KDElibs_4_using_MinGW_with_Qt_4
.3)
>> cygwin provides most of the build environment for building KDE apps, as
>> well as packaging, distribution and installation. There is not such a thing
>> neither in the new KDE-apps nor in the existing ports for gtk+ etc. What I
>> thought of was using cygwin packages to provide packaging for windows apps
>> - like having a subdirectory in the setup list with native apps packaged
>> and installing like ordinary cygwin-packages.
>> That would perhaps mean to extend cygwins setup to a complete package
>> manager, which is still missing imo.
>
> But, then, setup.exe was only designed to be a dessert topping so we are
> very lucky that it does anything non-culinary at all.
>
> cgf
Yes, I ... <slips> whoooaaaaaah!
Say, the floor in here is looking beautifully shiny and clean...
cheers,
DaveK
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