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Re: cygwin setup
- To: etoffi at softhome dot net
- Subject: Re: cygwin setup
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 18:12:39 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20001226225803.23291.qmail@softhome.net>
> hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source
> for the setup utility available?
Yes. Get the cygwin sources, and it's in src/winsup/cinstall.
> also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin?
There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-)
Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to
actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format
for Cygwin.
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