From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stipe Tolj To: Michael Weiser Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <36E70E49.4A77@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <19990308134915.8672.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> <36E5C95D.7810@uni-duesseldorf.de> <36e94a87.1879752@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00362.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.Enf5bG_tkxnA9m_esguWY3r5ILgOLTA6lLBA64cprao@z> Michael Weiser wrote: > Why? Someone who can't do a tar -xzvf will also be unable to use > cygwin after install. It's the old thread which shows up here > regularly and I'm one of those who want tar's or even better rpm's. I know about the previos threads on this. The only thing I was trying to point out is that InstallShield will be used for first time installation (similar to YaST for SuSE) and then all sources will be supplyed as tarbars for re-compilation purposes. > >Hmmm, that's why we want to build the CD environment as clean as > >possible, like SuSE does it with the latest 6.0 release. Mainly all > >packages should work after installation. Support for re-compiling the > >packages will be very limited. > If recompiling support is limited, then you'll immediately be > violating the GPL (according to DJ Delorie). I was meaning automated support from InstallShield or any other installation tool for the tarbars, not the ability to build them under cygwin. > BTW: SuSE is getting worse with every release. :-| nop :(( I haven't experienced this mainly, except some things like the cipe daemon :)) Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com