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Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- To: "Smith, Martin" <martin@exchange.Scotland.NCR.com>
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey
- From: Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 02:28:45 +0100
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Smith, Martin wrote:
>
> > Is it wise to change this to binary for a'development'
> > > install or not?
> > 8<
> >
> > NO! The preferred method is text mounts.
> >
> Oops - fair enough, I wasn't sure :-) I guess this implies there are a few
> packages out there aren't properly ported?
that's right. Some porters ease their porting efforts by switching to
binary mounts and hence don't keep track of file IO.
> An automated install tool (like InstallShield) should be able to detect
> which OS the software is being installed on and set up the appropriate
> settings for each. I take the point though that this might not cover all
> cases adequately.
InstallShield will set up all required env vars as much as the users
selects the packages to install. Hence a software detection for the
system is not that much necessary.
> [Martin] In theory an installer could ask the user what they wanted set up
> but, in practice, I agree this would probably be too much hassle. I
> certainly wouldn't recommend a windows installer as a panacea for all
> installation issues !
it will be capable of allowing to select packages not such dependency
checks as YaST from SuSE can do.
> True, all the tools in one place sounds handy :-) And, as you say, as long
> as people realise that this method of installation may not suit their
> particular needs then there's no problem...
fine
Regards,
Stipe
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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj
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