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 15:56:36 -0500 Organization: Spirent Communications, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1046894927.6079.16.camel@localhost> 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: <1046894927.6079.16.camel@localhost> Robert Collins wrote: > So we: > Write a perl/tk installer in using activestate perl to be installed > using a self-extracting executable to allow the installation of cygwin. > > Perhaps I'm pessimistic, but I can just see huge issues with 'your > installer downgraded my activestate install' and other similar problems. You unzip everything into a temp directory and it all runs from there. No registry entries (or whatever a normal win32 perl install does), just files temporarily put into an install directory. We do this already where I work (which is why I mentioned it in the first place). I may or may not try it -- time is also a concern for me. -- 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/