--- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2002 11:45 AM > > To: Robert Collins; 'Jehan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hey, you were the one who brought up debian... > > Actually, I brought up the technique dpkg uses to address the same > issue. But I can understand that being misinterpreted.
Gotcha... > > I am listening... I don't know where you got this one from, > > but I respect > > your membership in the Cygwin/XFree86 community. > > From the "Like it or not" comment/ Well I didn't mean to imply that you didn't care. > > > The simple fact is, I disagree with your proposal, and you > > have made no > > > convincing arguments to change my mind. What you are > > suggesting is not > > > what 'most' windows installers do, it is not flexible, it is a step > > > backwards in approach, and a proper solution is not that hard to do! > > > > > What you are suggesting is akin to Windows installers run > > batch files in > > the background? > > No, I've not mentioned batch files or shell scripts, just data driven > and interpretation. > > > I > > heard your point regarding the backend data-driven support, > > but lets be > > serious, that kind of functionality is months away. > > I'm not talking backend at this point, just something contained in the > package that gets presented to the user in some fashion. It can be 100% > GUI without any complaints from me. After all - that is what the users > expect. > > > Fine, how's this, > > I'll rip out > > the specific references to cygwin.bat and instead have setup > > parse the ini > > for what it should display in that last window and how many it should > > display. This is how installishield and others do it. How's > > that for a > > solution? > > Much better. How about this tweak: > Packages extract a file - lets call it > '/var/setup/setup-shortcuts/packagename.icons > > Parse that file for shortcut icons to offer to create. Each icon will > need: > * Name to give the shortcut > * Location to place it (i.e. %DESKTOP% | %STARTMENU%/subpath | / (to > place in cygwin root dir)) > * Target to point to (i.e. /usr/X11R6/... > > So a format like > === > "Name of shortcut1" "location of shortcut 1" "target or shortcut 1" > "Name of shortcut2" "location of shortcut 2" "target or shortcut 2" > === > > Makes sense to me. Yup, now to read up on the setup code and figure out how best to do this. > > > > P.S. My damn keyboard is dying... Also, do I need a debug version of > > setup.exe from you or will you be satisified with output from the > > non-debug version? > > Uhmm, I'm building a debug version for you at the moment. Thanks, just checking to make sure, as it is almost 10pm here (I'm sure it is like 10am there) :-) Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com
