Random ideas for 3.7

[Jon Turney]

On 03/04/2025 09:37, Sebastian Feld wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM Corinna Vinschen
> <corinna-cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> If you have other ideas what could be helpful for Cygwin, don't be shy
>> to add it to this thread.  Ideally with the intention to look into
>> implementing it by yourself, but at least a certain willingness to look
>> into the source code and discuss potential ways to implement it given
>> the current framework.
> 
> An offline installer, which includes all files for a release, would be
> good. Cygwin can only be installed with internet access right now,
> precluding its use in intranets without a bridge to the internet.

This problem is in the domain of setup application, not the cygwin DLL.

setup (at least notionally) supports offline installs since forever (See 
[1]), although it could certainly use a bit of polish.

(Bundling setup + all the packages into a single download of many tens 
of gigabytes, which is what I think you are suggesting, seems like a 
non-starter to me)

[1] https://cygwin.com/install.html#offline