From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stipe Tolj To: "Smith, Martin" Cc: "'earnie_boyd@yahoo.com'" , Cygwin Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <36E5CACD.4DBD@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <286215C2CA1AD211A13500A024535B5887C8E3@eukscpo3.Dundee.NCR.COM> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00311.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.IRZIV4_mPmH_sgqsmLEGIMMHSeZ7i2ezRhovHy5ld5M@z> 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 -- 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