Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990311132932.22389.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:29:32 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey To: Greg Miller Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---Greg Miller wrote: > > 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. > > Except that the above tar command isn't equivalent to a full > InstallShield executable. Further, many cygwin users just want to run > one or two pieces of UNIX software, not use a full simulation of UNIX. You've just given a perfectly good reason why _NOT_ to use InstallShield. With InstallShield, unless the packager has provided for it, you can't just pick and choose like you would be able to with tar. I know, I know; can't this thread just die? Well, I just couldn't resist responding. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com