On 03/04/2025 09:37, Sebastian Feld wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
If you have other ideas what could be helpful for Cygwin, don't be shy
to add it to this thread. Ideally with the intention to look into
implementing it by yourself, but at least a certain willingness to look
into the source code and discuss potential ways to implement it given
the current framework.
An offline installer, which includes all files for a release, would be
good. Cygwin can only be installed with internet access right now,
precluding its use in intranets without a bridge to the internet.
This problem is in the domain of setup application, not the cygwin DLL.
setup (at least notionally) supports offline installs since forever (See
[1]), although it could certainly use a bit of polish.
(Bundling setup + all the packages into a single download of many tens
of gigabytes, which is what I think you are suggesting, seems like a
non-starter to me)
[1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#offline
