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RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Nicholas Wourms'" <nwourms at yahoo dot com>,"'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:54:20 +1000
- Subject: RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms
> Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2002 10:29 AM
> Chuck,
>
> For crying out loud, 95% of the installers out there create
> shortcuts for
> the user in the startmenu and on the desktop. Why is this such a bad
> thing for setup.exe to do? What does external data have to
> do with the
> price of potatos? Seriously, I'm proposing a "simple"
> solution which is
> the norm for most installers. Where have I gone astray?
Because simple solutions often increase coupling, wheres a more thought
out solution decreases coupling.
Also, I know you are subscribed to cygwin-apps, and I just posted there
just a couple of days ago about wanting to remove the hardcoded stuff
from setup.exe.
Rob