Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Joe Buehler Subject: Re: setup.exe: something besides C++? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:34:47 -0500 Organization: Spirent Communications, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3E661917.6040405@hekimian.com> References: <3E66173E.5000703@jhuapl.edu> Reply-To: jbuehler@hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3E66173E.5000703@jhuapl.edu> Steve Coleman wrote: > But then with all the recent requests for new Cygwin setup.exe features > I do think there might be a use for something like the CPAN.pm package > that would allow these people to script their own automatic updates or > to add new custom features as required for their specific needs. No > setup.exe is going to satisfy everybody, so perhaps a CYGWIN.pm ?? I am one of the ones who would like to make install enhancements for my own use -- unattended installs for example -- but the existing code is not easy for me to figure out... -- Joe Buehler -- 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/