Joe Siebenmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't seen the 'Eclipse IDE' release, and I'm sure you're trying to
> figure out how to distribute it.. I have a good idea. :-)
I had the impression that they knew what form they wanted to distribute
it in, but had not figured out where to find a network of mirror sites,
such as Debian, Red Hat, or GNU have, at short notice :-).
> Going through the whole Cygwin setup is frought with possible problems,
> didn't get make, Oops.. have some previous attempt to get it, so it didn't
> include file such-and-such Oops.. :-(
People who want to throw Cygwin FUD around might as well throw valid
FUD. "Didn't get make" is nothing to do with Cygwin or its setup.exe.
It's just a straw-man: if I thought it was the right thing to do, I
would have arranged the prc-tools.sf.net repository so that make was
installed by default. But I don't think that.
If PalmSource wanted to set up some Cygwin-based stuff in a fairly ideal
way, they might consider allowing for the best of both worlds:
* setting up a repository accessible via Cygwin's setup.exe, so that
their packages interact well with existing Cygwin users' existing
Cygwin installations
* providing Palm OS SDKs as packages, which I would suggest would
completely solve the remaining area of this installation that is
fraught with any real difficulty
* producing their own palmsource-setup.exe based on Cygwin's, which
would contain preselected default answers to all those questions that
Cygwin setup.exe asks that are oh so difficult to answer: PalmSource's
repository preselected, a more complete (and less flexible) set of
default packages, extra click-wrap license screens to taste, etc --
thus providing an installer that would look like what Windows users
are used to, but still interoperate with any Cygwin installation that
might already be present
Because this is eminently sensible, it will never happen :-)
> a nice .zip file with just the files you need is perfect!
It would be imperfect because it would come with imperfect instructions
that would inevitably be imperfectly followed. We've been here before:
http://escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m56756.html
John
(But please let's not have another Cygwin FUD thread. One in a week is
tiresome enough, no?)
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