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On 1/23/2014 10:40 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: <snip>
[...]One solution to this would be to reimplement it as two separate parts - a non-Cygwin envelope (which could even be installed as an msi) and a Cygwin-based package maintainer. The Cygwin-based part would be a completely separate Cygwin installation, with its own cygwin1.dll, and a minimal set of utilities, and would not interfere with the main installation. The non-cygwin wrapper would simply install/update this mini-Cygwin system and invoke the Cygwin-based package maintainer.I second this idea.The package maintainer would be based on the existing setup.exe,I think this is not that good. If you rewrite the tool you should throw away ballast and use the chance to include new helpful things like a clean interface to an installation config file which allows cloning of existent installations.
Unless there's someone reading this thread that's actually going to jump in and start working on setup-next-generation, I'd like to ask others that are considering adding to this thread to not do so. Talking about what would be great as a next-generation version of setup has been done plenty in the past and it's quite likely that a continuation of this thread along this line will rehash what has already been said. What's missing isn't ideas on how to make a better setup facility. What's missing are the brave and capable souls to do it. If this describes you, I'd recommend checking the archives for previous discussions on this subject and then proposing a plan based on those discussions. Best to do that on the cygwin-apps list though. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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