Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Vidiot wrote:
> Larry:
> 
>> You may be surprised to find out that these ideas are not new.  What's been
>> missing in the past has been patches that do something like what you suggest
>> in a compelling way.  If you're interested, you may be able to remedy that.
> 
> I'm happy to read that the idea isn't new.
> 
> As much as I'd like to update the setup program, I know zero about Windoze
> programming, and really prefer to keep it that way.  I'm a Unix programmer,
> born an bred.  If you were talking Sun package install, then it would be
> right up my alley.
> 
> And since I suspect the setup program requires Windoze programming knowledge,
> I would not be any help in adding that feature.
> 
> It must not be easy, or it would have been done by now?


The 'setup.exe' code is in a "challenged" state which can make adding
features "challenging".  Perhaps you'd like to provide a Sun installer
and then port it to Cygwin. ;-)


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