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Re: Setup.exe requirements [was RE: Cygintl-3.dll was not found]


On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 10 August 2006 14:39, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:00:19AM +0200, Tevfik Karag?lle wrote:
> >> cgf wrote:
> >>> Standards such as?  A pointer to a free installer which uses Windows
> >>> standards and which will handle Cygwin's needs would be useful, e.g.,
> >>> would NSIS meet your needs?  We've discussed using NSIS in the past.
> >>
> >> Can anyone give me a qualified reference about the requirements of a
> >> core cygwin environment ?  I would like to try to develop an NSIS
> >> installer for it.
> >
> > Huh?  setup.exe installs a "core cygwin environment" right now.
> > What kind of reference would you be expecting other than the
> > operation of the current installer?
> >
> > cgf
>
>   I imagine Tevfik just wants us to enumerate the things it needs to do:
>
> 1)  Allow package selection and handle dependencies, based on setup.ini
> information and the content of the local package store.
> 2)  Create basic cygwin registry mountpoints if they don't already exist.
> 3)  Untar selected package tarballs in cygwin root directory when installing,
> delete previously installed files when uninstalling.
> 4)  Run preuninstall and postinstall scripts as requested.
> 5)  Maintain suitable setup.db information for cygcheck to continue working.
> 6)  Optionally create desktop / start menu shortcuts.
>
>   Does that cover all the essentials?

7)  Run preremove scripts on uninstalls.
8)  Allow installing package sources.
	Igor
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