Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes:
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote:
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or
Bill Hughes wrote:
YaST from SUSE is now GPL and handles dependencies quite well, the reason I
mention it is that as an alternative to the more normal 'pretty' gui it also
has a text mode gui-ish interface which may work better with a screen
reader/magnifier.
I think that as long as we stick
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Bill Hughes wrote:
YaST from SUSE is now GPL and handles
Sean McMahon wrote:
Is there a cygwin port for this yast which will install cygwin packages? I
No.
should point out that some of the controlls in setup.exe work. The initial
buttons for selecting install from internet, the next and back buttons, the
finnish button. It's really the main
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one time,
but Google doesn't want to be my friend today.
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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:04:24AM -0400, Arturus Magi wrote:
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
I also seem to recall someone using apt-get in Cygwin-space at one
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
All working, proven technologies.
Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then?
Also, what about a GUI?
I
Max Bowsher kirjoitti:
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Why to reinvent wheel..?
You could use existing systems, like Debian package-system (deb),
RPM-system like Fedora Core/RedHat, or Gentoo's Emerge.
All working, proven technologies.
Would you like to have a go at porting one of them to Windows, then?
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/?
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