Dear GnuWin32-People First of all: I'm new to this list, and also to GnuWin32. I had some problems with downloading gunwin32 in the way I like it -- and had solved this. Now I hope that other people may benefit from my solution too!
I have written and tested some BATCH script that can be run on windows xp (and perhaps windows 2000/NT to). This BATCH scripts automates the process of selecting the newest binary and documentation gnuwin32 packages and downloading them. The scripts can be downloaded from http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/gnuwin32/GetGnuWin32.zip for a while. Please don't misunderstanding me: Not all packages are downloaded, but only about 10% of all packages, namely only the newest binary, library, dependency and documentation packages. No sources and no installers however. The selection of the packages is done fully automatically. Furthermore, I have written a little installer that unzip the packages, whereby special care of the contrib and doc tree is taken. The installer updates also the info tree (if info doesn't work, you may use the info program of cygwin). The reason why I make my work public in your list is as follows: I've found in your archive some question about how to download all the GnuWin32-Packages. The answer was always: Don't download all, you will only need about ten percent or less of the stuff! Well, I completely agree. But which then percent of the more than thousand files I have to download? And have I to download and install each of the about hundred packages by it's own? This is a lot of manual work that can be easily automated. With kindly regards Mathias Michaelis ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
