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 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Cygwin package management References: <200412271301.iBRD1kl10849@esds.vss.fsi.com> <41D01F3F.40801@luc.ac.be> <41D022C0.70508@luc.ac.be> <87oegfpx91.fsf@peder.flower> <6.2.0.14.0.20041227104154.04bd4900@pop.prospeed.net> From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Organization: Jan at Appel Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:08:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041227104154.04bd4900@pop.prospeed.net> (Larry Hall's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:46:00 -0500") Message-ID: <87d5wvpvvi.fsf@peder.flower> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Larry Hall writes: > You left out of your simple description the postinstall (and > preremove) scripts. That's not to say that someone can't make > scripts to perform the equivalent of what 'setup.exe' does or that > your python scripts don't already. Yes, I forgot. I only added /etc/postinstall to cyg-apt when I learnt that people were actually using it on Cygwin; running those on my cygwin tree on linux does not work. > It is worthwhile noting that this list doesn't support home- > grown install scripts. One should feel free to develop these but please > don't expect us to debug'em. :-) Of course. Otoh, providing a unix environment and then expecting people to resistancelessly accept a setup.exe gui to do package management is asking for trouble ;-) Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/