Re: Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements.

2009-02-15 Thread Ralph Hempel
Duane Ellis wrote: I and others have asked for the ability to specify a "group of packages to install" setup -p comma,separated,list,of,packages Ralph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements.

2009-02-15 Thread Duane Ellis
somebody>> We have loads of suggestions for changes to Cygwin or setup.exe. somebody>> Where can I get the these suggestions ? somebody>> the mailing list. I speak up about this. I and others have asked for the ability to specify a "group of packages to install" The use-case/example is thi

Re: Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements. Was: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:35:25AM +0800, Brant Young wrote: >On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen >>We have loads of suggestions for changes to Cygwin or setup.exe. > >Where can I get the these suggestions ? The mailing list archives. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements. Was: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-14 Thread Brant Young
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > ... but it would have been much more helpful to put the time into hacking up > setup.exe, instead of creating another, competing installer. I'll try to write a "common setup engine wrapper" to reuse current setup.exe code, and try to spl

Re: Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements. Was: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 20:29, Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > I found Brant & Warren Young and Dave Korn, et al's comments > about a possible conjoined 'setup', and the unfortunately > named (& soon to be renamed -- TYVM), 'cygwine', and the > requirements thereto (;-)), to be right to the point. It's nice that someb

Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements. Was: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-13 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
I found Brant & Warren Young and Dave Korn, et al's comments about a possible conjoined 'setup', and the unfortunately named (& soon to be renamed -- TYVM), 'cygwine', and the requirements thereto (;-)), to be right to the point. I would like to suggest two new features for the setup/command line