Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:33:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the simpleminded Message-ID: <20010919113304.A14174@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010917185408.78734.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010917185408.78734.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i I would urge anyone who thinks they need to spin their own installer to instead think about contributing to the current setup.exe code base. It seems crazy to me that anyone would try to promote something else merely because setup.exe lacks some functionality. cgf On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Joshua Franklin wrote: >I've done it, too. I was working in bit of network space and wanted >the basics of Cygwin without using much disk space. I used Nullsoft's >Free installer, NSIS: > >http://www.nullsoft.com/free/ > >I decided my "cygwin lite" might possibly be useful enough for other >people to use so I put up a SourceForge project page. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/