You're right, I do want a working installation... but I don't understand why a .zip file distribution wouldn't give me that.
So that brings up an interesting general topic, maybe I just don't understand how PRC-Tools install works. I'm new to Palm's development tools, so forgive me if I could have RTFM somewhere... Once I get cygwin and PRC-Tools installed, I've got the PRC-Tools binaries on my system. Is there some reason I can't just zip up those tools (if I knew exactly which files they were!) and redistribute them to my team? Do the tools depend on something in cygwin (like, I suppose, cygwin dll's) so I'd have to redistribute those dependant libraries as well? Do they depend on some registry settings that wouldn't get created if I just distributed a .zip file (I'd hope not)? What I really want, is a simple tools distribution that I can pass around to my development team; so we know we're all building product using the same bits. Today, we all have to download cygwin on each PC, then install PRC-Tools using setup.exe's script, then pray setup.exe got it right, we all checked the same boxes, and we all have the same thing on everybody's system (and that Joe developer doesn't get antsy and update to the latest beta release of PRC-Tools ahead of the rest of the team). I'd just feel better if I "knew" we all had the same thing. Building from a released .zip file would give me that peace of mind. Thanks in advance for helping me understand all this. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John > Marshall > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:29 PM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: pilrc -ro usage > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:49:00PM +0000, Chris Ring wrote: > > After jumping through all the cygwin setup.exe hoops to get > the latest > > prc-tools (whew, what a mess! All I want is a .zip file of > > pre-compiled binaries...), > > No, what you want is something that produces a working installation. > Setup.exe gives you that; a zipfile of binaries doesn't. > > John > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to > unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
