Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh, and I fixed this on the server side. The process which creates the "mirrors.list" file that setup.exe uses will no longer output "^rsync:" lines to that file. Thanks, that's a good idea anyway, for bandwidth/download time, given every (non-local) run of every copy of

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-18 Thread Yadin Goldschmidt
You may want to look at www.miktex.org. They have a setup program and a windows update wizard that allows you to update from a bunch of mirrors. It is open source and the source is available at their site. With some modifications it may work for cygwin although I am not an expert on this. All I k

RE: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be > > pressed into service for use with cygwin? > http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php > Fergus > I second that emotion. InnoSetup absolutely rocks. What I suspect you're unlikely to find in any of these however is piecemeal

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Christopher Faylor writes: > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be > pressed into service for use with cygwin? NSIS has already been mentioned. The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). But if you really want to do y

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread fergus
> Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility > that could be pressed into service for use with cygwin? http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:15:38PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 17 December 2004 15:58 > >> Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could >> be pressed into service for use with cygwin? >> > >

RE: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 17 December 2004 15:58 > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could > be pressed into service for use with cygwin? > Nullsis is the first thing that leaps to mind http://nsis.sourcefo

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:43:11PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Max Bowsher >> Sent: 17 December 2004 14:55 > >> Bernhard Sammer wrote: >> > *The following problem occurs when choosing to install from >> rsync mirror >> ... >> > Is this