I'd rather see the common code put into a library (and available in both cygwin and mingw flavors). Then it would be pretty easy to have a Cygwin::Setup perl extension and command line tools using it. (Substitute your other glue language of choice as desired.)
On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:17 am, Dave Korn wrote: > I'm taking a quick browse through the code. I see that you've based it > on chunks of the core setup.exe code, somewhat refactored and > restructured. I wonder if we couldn't merge the two codebases, in such a > way that there's one common 'setup engine' with a couple of alternative > GUI front-ends; that might > be a neat way to fix up all the missing features and make sure there is > thoroughly consistent behaviour between the two different installers. -- 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/
