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Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:07:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)
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- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On Jan 27 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:16:37PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >I was actually a little curious about this, so I did a little
> >experiment. I sequestered away my normal Cygwin installation and
> >started with a fresh install. Aside from the default "base" packages
> >that setup.exe intstalls out of the gate, I found that I only had to
> >actually select three packages in setup: gcc, make, and perl. (and Perl
> >was required only for gendef it seems.)
>
> Well, that's it then.
>
> This is all WAY too complicated.
>
> How can we possibly expect people to do in-depth debugging of problems
> in the DLL if we require them to have gcc, make, and perl on their
> systems? We can't expect people to be *perl hackers* if they want to
> build cygwin. Just the perl requirement alone would mean that they'd
> waste months learning perl.
If it comes to that, we also require them to run Cygwin to build Cygwin
on Windows. That's a pretty big hurdle, isn't it?
Corinna