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Re: Sounds interesting


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:30:25PM +0200, Saro Engels wrote:
> > Matthew Woehlke schrieb:
> >> Saro Engels wrote:
> >>> And is there any possibility to integrate KDE-apps a bit tighter into
> >>> cygwin? I am thinking of trying to build some cygwin packages.
> >
> > That was just wrong what I wrote:
> > As far as I can see (cf.
> > http://www.kdelibs.com/wiki/index.php/Building_KDElibs_4_using_MinGW_with_Qt_4.3)
> > cygwin provides most of the build environment for building KDE apps,
> > as well as packaging, distribution and installation. There is not such
> > a thing neither in the new KDE-apps nor in the existing ports for gtk+
> > etc. What I thought of was using cygwin packages to provide packaging
> > for windows apps - like having a subdirectory in the setup list with
> > native apps packaged and installing like ordinary cygwin-packages.
> > That would perhaps mean to extend cygwins setup to a complete package
> > manager, which is still missing imo.
>
> But, then, setup.exe was only designed to be a dessert topping so we are
> very lucky that it does anything non-culinary at all.

Can someone *please* add a kitchen sink[*] to setup.exe?
	Igor
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