Andy Koppe wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:49 PM: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up >> for you? > > That would be great, since I haven't got a clue about how to do that. > Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the readme > into %PROGRAMFILES%\MinTTY and puts a shortcut to the exe directly > into Start Menu\Programs.
Please don't make this the only way to install this. Some of us (e.g., yours truly) do not have permissions that allow installation into %PROGRAMFILES%. And although I haven't tried it since that directory became restricted, I suspect that I no longer have permission to "execute" .msi files. In part, that's why I asked about making it a cygwin package. I know that I can install *them*. But if one *must* use a windows installer, please make it possible to customize the installation. And be sure that non-Administrators can install. <OT>Really, they've been making our computers so secure that I expect soon they will be unusable; sometimes if seems like the better part of a minute to get the Start Menu to pop up! I can't wait for them to figure out that the only truly secure computer is one with no network access, no removable disks, and a blank hard disk. But I digress.</OT> I know that discussion has already started on making MinTTY a cygwin package so this post is, in many ways, a waste of bandwidth. But I thought I'd post anyway, in case efforts veer back towards a Windows installer. I thank you for your patience and tolerance. Unrelated: I apologize for having mentioned PuTTYcyg and started that fork of this thread. It's not like I use it or really care. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
