X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:18:01 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Charles Wilson Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: distributing executables for windows Message-ID: <20110304101801.0000470f@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4D70828B.3020106@cwilson.fastmail.fm> References: <4D6FC57F.7000406@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110304051757.000036ce@unknown> <4D70828B.3020106@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:11:23 -0500 Charles Wilson <> wrote: > 'Course, this list will support neither you nor your users if ever > they run into a problem with the installation that results. We don't > have time to support every frankenstein "cygwin" bowdlerization on > the planet... > > Still, it seems like an awful lot of effort, and future pain, to > avoid a few 10's of KB of compressed man pages...have fun. I've tested the solution on different machines and it seems to work, with just 17 executables in /bin (cygwin in total uses 9MB) - I wasn't prepared to require users to install 70MB of cygwin (which can't be uninstalled!) just to support a simple 2MB application so I did my research and found out just what little was actually required, given a custom batch file to launch it. I realise I won't get any support for it, but I have enough technical knowledge that I don't think I'll need it. -- Bruce Cran -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple