Brent Frère wrote: > Cygwin is marvelous. Thank you for maintaining it. It's so powerful to > convince our customers to migrate to open-source software and finally > OS... > > I just have to face a problem: I wish to download the entire CygWin > distribution in order to give it to my customers on CDs (a way to > promote your project without having to ask them to download it...) > Your automatic installation procedure is very powerful, however it > works only on Windows-running hosts... (that makes sense, if you wish > to use it...). As professional telecom company, we don't have ANY > windows based host here. So, I have huge difficulties to download the > software in order to write some CD for our customers... > > Could you, as example, refer on your web site some URL so that it > could be possible to download this marvelous project using plain > http, ftp or rsync protocol instead of the Setup.exe tool ?
1. Nothing stops you using http or ftp. 2. You will have issues making sure you only download current versions of packages though. Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl (http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/) may help here, by parsing setup.ini into a list of URLs to download. Max. -- 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/
