On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Yann Crausaz wrote: > Your views are right, BUT poeple who were use to work under *NIX (like > me) really like to find known tools as they have to change their working > environment , and poeple trying to execute *NIX binaries under Cygwin > will always exist ! Don't you think so ?
Yeah, but I'm just afraid that there will be a *lot* more of them if we start using RPM as an installer. What I would really be in favour of is a slightly intelligent port of RPM (or perhaps even making RPM itself slightly more intelligent) and have it complain if you try to make it install non-native binaries. Of course, there are valid reasons to want to do that (need libraries when cross-compiling, for example) but a warning wouldn't hurt in such cases.. Being completely unfamiliar with the RPM codebase and this not being a Cygwin-specific thing makes this idea completely OT here, though.. rlc [snipped quoted messages] -- 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/
