setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: >I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report >to this person assuming they were the maintainer. My question as I've >asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility >of setup.exe for thos

RE: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-02 Thread James Renton
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-03 Thread Max Bowsher
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-03 Thread Jani Tiainen
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-03 Thread Max Bowsher
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 wou

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-03 Thread Jani Tiainen
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? Sorry

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-04 Thread Arturus Magi
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. -- Unsubs

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
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-spa

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-05 Thread Bill Hughes
Christopher Faylor 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 Gentoo's Emerge. > >

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Dessent
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 st

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-05 Thread Sean McMahon
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:42 AM Subject: Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent) > Bill Hughes wrote: > > > YaST from SUSE is

Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Dessent
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 mai