Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Help: , Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Reply-To: From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Anders Norlander" Cc: "Chris Faylor" , , Subject: RE: gcc-2.95 mingw32 MSVCRT runtime fixed/updated. Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:04:49 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <37A5DAD4.C0E9E198@hem2.passagen.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal > Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: > > > > > My basic stumbling block to releasing this right now is that I don't > > > have a full version of InstallShield here and I don't want to rely on > > > the internal group who did this last time to produce it since they are > > > notoriously slow. So, I was thinking of trying to just do something > > > with a shell script and offering the option to download individual > > > packages from the net or bundling everything up and sending a > large tar > > > ball. > > > > > > So, the shell script would just ask basic questions like > "what packages > > > do you want to install?", "where should I install this?" and "should > > > this be root, then?". There won't be any fancy graphics or anything. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > Personally I would prefer the Shell script to install Cygwin. It gives > > more control to user, in comparision to InstallShield. > > What about user's that don't have a shell installed? > That is why I said "Personally, I prefer..." :-) However, Chris, if you need help with InstalledShield. I can volunteer it for you. I have InstallShield Express and should be able to return you the binaries within 2 days. Suhaib > -Anders > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com