From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Stipe Tolj" , "Cygwin" Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <007501be68c0$ee6d69b0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00170.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.nbHeRa8m0TxXi4jk_pyQ5EQwpKMzUlqFx3oZBf6UktA@z> >I have planned this for about a year and now I would like to hear from >other cygwin users what they think about it. Mostly I'm interested in >the opinion of the cygwin core developers. > >We would like to compile a set of files containing > > - latest cygwin full.exe distrbution > - latest pre-compiled egcs replacement > - latest cygwin-snapshots > - pre-compiled libraries and headers for /usr/local/include and >/usr/local/lib > - like X11R6.4, crypt, ncurses, gmp, readline, gd, ... > - pre-compiled applications for /usr/local/ > - like X11R6.4, XEmacs, LyX, GIMP, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, >inetutils, ssh > >and all the other ports available at ftp.franken.de > > - any available sources for the pre-compiled cygwin ports > - cygwin documentation > - a HTML mirror of the complete mailing list contents > >to a Cygwin DEV (Development Environment) CD-ROM like the RedHat or SuSE >Linux distributions. This package should enable users to install Cygwin >on a clean Win32 system with all required software allready available >via CD. A CD like Red Hat and SuSE will not be violation of Cygwin GPL license? Just a question. > >Currently all files should fit on a single CD. There won't be a CD >distribution (at least for now), but we will provide the complete set of >files for burning such a CD from our web site (and hopefully some >mirrors around the world). > >We would like to use the latest InstallShield version, so new users may >install the base Cygwin b20.1 distrbition and any other components very >modular via InstallShield selection windows. > >Any comments towards this idea are very welcome. > >Regards, >Stipe > >-- >Stipe Tolj > >Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" > http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ > >Department of Economical Computer Science >University of Cologne, Germany > > > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com