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Re: Sounds interesting
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.
cgf