From: cgw@pgt.com (Charles G Waldman) Subject: RE: CD-based distribution (was Another website....) 14 Aug 1998 22:01:53 -0700 Message-ID: <13780.8418.467018.819080.cygnus.gnu-win32@sirius> References: <01J0JUCZD5BM00084N@scottish-newcastle.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert.Cross@scottish-newcastle.co.uk Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Robert.Cross@scottish-newcastle.co.uk writes: > Here's a summary of what seems to be the state of play, opinion-wise, with > this at the moment. > > 'BLUE SOCKS' GNU-WIN32 DISTRIBUTION: > > o Xwindows software, eg xterm, to be installed by default (make this easily > removable/optional?). This should be optional. If you don't have an X-Server, xterm et al will be useless. And there's not a good free X-Server we can distribute with the 'Blue Socks' distribution. > o I suggest that the following (plus others) are included on the list of > 'developer' packages: > Xemacs, Fortran compiler, Pascal compiler, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Graphics libraries > - such as PNG, etc, > Expect(?). Networking tools (sendmail?). Since Perl, Tcl/Tk, XEmacs (as of version 21, to be released RSN) and the PNG libraries have already been ported to Win32 - as native Win32 programs, that is, not on top of Cygnus - having a second Cygnus version of these installed is a bit of a pain. Personally, if I'm going to do Tcl/Tk development on Windows, I'll do it in native mode, so that when I distribute my programs to Windows users there won't be any surprises. Does Cygwin really need its own copies of all the Tcl/Tk stuff, if the native-mode versions are already installed on the host PC? > o GIMP v1.0 anyone? That's a fabulous idea. > o Available in binary and source forms: NETPBM/PBMplus, GhostScript/Ghostview, > XPaint, > Apache web server, .... Again, Ghostscript already compiles natively on Win32. What's the advantage of having a Cygnus version? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".