On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi, > > On 25 Apr 2004 at 18:50, A. Alper Atici spoke, thus: > > > On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:17:49 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > > > > I can't > > >offer a hand in porting anything (not to my knowledge, anyway, > > >particularly as Cyg isn't installed yet :-) ), > > > > Is this because chooser box in setup program is not AT-aware? > > AFAIK, setup program selects a base set of packages by default, so you > > should not end up with nothing when you just press Next at that stage. > > Thanks for suggesting - no, I don't; it does give you a base system, but > that does not seem to include a GNU development toolchain of any kind. > (Well, "gcc" isn't found.) I need this to try my builds on - QuakeForge > builds on Windows too but only if you use Cygwin, and I'll need to do this > shortly anyway for my other project (http://www.agrip.org.uk/). I don't > know of a way to install/uninstall packages from like the command line - I > think it's all done in setup.exe. What wouldn't I give for a console one > at this stage? ... :-) > > Cheers, > Sabahattin
Sabahattin, Accessibility friendliness of setup has been discussed on both this list and cygwin-apps before -- just Google for "setup blind site:cygwin.com", for example. As explained in those messages, it's not a malicious oversight, but rather the lack of volunteer time to address these concerns. Not to sound arrogant, but anyone with interest and development experience is free to submit patches to setup's CVS source (see <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> for details on accessing it). As for installing more than just the base packages without the graphical selection screen, there are a few options available now: - if you don't mind a *HUGE* download, simply give a "-a" command-line option to setup - create a local mirror with just a hand-edited setup.ini file, in which all the needed packages are in the "Base" category, and add it to the mirror list (select another mirror as well, as your mirror probably won't have the packages; this also requires apache or ftp running) - create a local mirror with one dummy package in "Base" that *depends* on all the needed packages, and, as above, add it to the mirror list These are just a few that come to mind right away -- I'm sure there are others. Once you have the development toolchain set up, please consider contributing to the setup code, as you seem to have the experience and the motivation. Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
