Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Randall R Schulz wrote: > Max, > > > At 08:30 2003-02-26, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:15:23PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. >>> >>> Here's YA catchphrase for the cygwin mailing list... :-) >>

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Max, At 08:30 2003-02-26, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:15:23PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. > > Here's YA catchphrase for the cygwin mailing list... :-) "YOWTWYWT"? Hmm... catchy! :-) Pronounced "yo

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:23PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. > > > > Here's YA catchphrase for the cygwin mailing list... :-) > > "YOWTWYWT"? Hmm... catchy! :-)

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:15:23PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. > > Here's YA catchphrase for the cygwin mailing list... :-) "YOWTWYWT"? Hmm... catchy! :-) Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (03-02-26 15:59 +0100) > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:48:39PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>* Christopher Faylor (03-02-26 04:35 +0100) >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:11:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Max Bowsher (03-02-25 20:13 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:15:23PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >You obviously weren't thinking when you wrote this. Here's YA catchphrase for the cygwin mailing list... :-) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Do

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I don't know these reasons for all those Base packages. But the > reasons are in my opinion not trivial. Omitting tar for example hasn't > simply the effect "so you cannot use tar" but "so you cannot install > via setup.exe, because the installation packages are tarred (and

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:48:39PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christopher Faylor (03-02-26 04:35 +0100) >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:11:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * Max Bowsher (03-02-25 20:13 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I checked it myself and I was wrong: the default

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:48, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > So you're telling me that > > a) there is no particular reason why the Cygwin creators made a "Base > Category" (different to all other categories (Editors, Shells)) There was a very long discussion on the cygwin-apps list about the categorie

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (03-02-26 04:35 +0100) > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:11:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Max Bowsher (03-02-25 20:13 +0100) >>> Thorsten Kampe wrote: I checked it myself and I was wrong: the default install is exactly the base install (plus dependencies) and this

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I'm curious (and this question is often asked). Do you think > something from the base install could be omitted /and/ having a > working Cygwin install? What is a working Cygwin install? If you leave out a package, the programs in that package w

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:11:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Max Bowsher (03-02-25 20:13 +0100) >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>I checked it myself and I was wrong: the default install is exactly the >>>base install (plus dependencies) and this is exactly the minimum >>>install. >> >>For certain

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Max Bowsher (03-02-25 20:13 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> I checked it myself and I was wrong: the default install is exactly >> the base install (plus dependencies) and this is exactly the minimum >> install. > > For certain definitions of minimum. Well, yes. I believe the Cygwin people ha

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I checked it myself and I was wrong: the default install is exactly > the base install (plus dependencies) and this is exactly the minimum > install. For certain definitions of minimum. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reportin

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Max Bowsher (03-02-25 00:25 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Max Bowsher (03-02-24 23:50 +0100) >>> Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Charles Krug (03-02-24 23:38 +0100) > We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the > Altavec PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a c

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:38:19PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote: >We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec >PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. > >Those of us with full developer Cygwin installations can run the program >with no problems. > >We'd

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Max Bowsher (03-02-24 23:50 +0100) >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * Charles Krug (03-02-24 23:38 +0100) We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. Those of us w

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Max Bowsher (03-02-24 23:50 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Charles Krug (03-02-24 23:38 +0100) >>> We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec >>> PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. >>> >>> Those of us with full developer Cygwin installat

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Krug wrote: > Cygwinners: > > We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec > PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. > > Those of us with full developer Cygwin installations can run the > program with no problems. > > We'd like to be able to d

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Charles Krug (03-02-24 23:38 +0100) >> We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec >> PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. >> >> Those of us with full developer Cygwin installations can run the >> program with no problems

Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Charles Krug (03-02-24 23:38 +0100) > Cygwinners: Yeah, that's me! > We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec > PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. > > Those of us with full developer Cygwin installations can run the program > with no pr

Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution

2003-02-24 Thread Charles Krug
Cygwinners: We've built the gcc/as/ld toolset as a cross compiler to the Altavec PowerPC. We've been using it internally for a couple of weeks. Those of us with full developer Cygwin installations can run the program with no problems. We'd like to be able to distribute a minimal package to ever