On 2013-06-17, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > ------=_Part_2565_268627.1371478847151 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > +1: we should not attempt to introduce any sort of package management on > Windows. In keeping with the Windows user experience we just need to vomit > stuff into the filesystem with a one-click install. Moving Cygwin should be > easy, you just need to rewrite the mount points for the new cygwin > directory: -1000: > > http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~cplager/cygwin.html#backup
this is quite outdated. A link there points to http://home.fnal.gov/~jamieson/cygwin.html which says, among other things, to install cygwin the normal way. E.g. I hate to think what would happen to file permissions and user privileges if you just copy the Cygwin tree to another computer. The solution I propose can be made into 1-click installation, (installing cygwin with a prescribed set of cygwin "modules", one of them Sage, very much like basic cygwin installation) would not imply or involve vomit, and would be something supported by cygwin folks. See e.g. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00114.html Dima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
