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Completely removing cygwin (was Re: A request?)


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:20:03PM -0400, Rick Kane wrote:
>Turning the topic in another direction (I hope).

When you start a new topic, please start a new thread.

cgf

>What I've been trying to
>do is figure out how to totally remove cygwin from a machine before I do
>another install.  This suggests tha I could delete the cygwin directory and
>the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions from the registry.  Is
>there anything else?  Where are all the places setup.exe looks to decide
>what is already installed (and what version)?  I'd like to delete those
>files too.  I'm just trying to do the experiment of a "clean" install.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com]On Behalf
>> Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:26 PM
>> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>> Subject: Re: A request?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:43:21AM -0400, Fletcher, Bob (GEAE, IT) wrote:
>> >I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I'll jump in anyway.
>> >
>> >To the original question; I'd like to violate group etiquette and throw
>> >in a big "Me to".  Having a cleaner versioning process would be a big
>> >benefit to cygwin.
>>
>> You're missing an IMO, there.
>>
>> >Also to the original question, a suggestion.  I have the same problem.
>> >I've taken the approach of running 'setup' on a box, then capturing the
>> >files, my preferred mount points, path settings and anything else I
>> >want to change, and building a Microsoft format "msi' package.  I can
>> >put this on a server and distribute it to internal users and they get
>> >exactly my configuration.  BTW, all you really need is a zip of the
>> >cygwin directory and .reg file dump of
>> >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions The MSI is just a bit
>> >easier to install, and I can pput in the shortcuts for people.
>>
>> Great.  You have a solution.  This isn't hard.  There are many ways to
>> make this work.
>>
>> The problem seems to be that people want someone else to do the work for
>> them.  While I can fully comprehend why you'd want someone to spend a
>> lot of time coming up with a "stable" release so that you wouldn't have
>> to, and how much of a benefit this could be to some folks, the simple
>> fact is that this isn't something that I want to do.  One could consider
>> this unreasonable, I suppose, except for the oft-stated fact that this
>> is a volunteer project and I really don't have to do be doing anything
>> at all.  I *am* supplying you with valuable software at no cost to you,
>> though.  Currently, this is the limit of my largesse.
>>
>> Cygwin is a strange environment.  It has many users and few contributors.
>> Probably that's because Red Hat is involved and people, unconsciously or
>> consciously think that somehow Red Hat is or should be footing the bill.
>> Or, maybe it's because the expertise level isn't high enough since
>> we're talking about a Windows environment.
>>
>> However, to a very large degree this is a volunteer process rather than
>> a voting process.  If you think "stable" releases are a good idea, then
>> I will gladly appoint you the cygwin stable release maintainer, I'll set
>> you up with disk space on sources.redhat.com and you can start doing
>> your magic.  I will set you up with a mailing list, if you want.
>>
>> I may offer an opinion or two as you ramp up but I probably won't change
>> the way we're currently doing releases or development, though.
>>
>> >Third, in response to cgf
>> >>Sorry but you are not a customer.  You're a user.  There is a subtle
>> >>difference.  Being a customer implies some seller/buyer relationship
>> >>which would entitle you to some kind of service from the seller.
>> >>Cygwin is offered as-is to you with nothing guaranteed other than you
>> >>get the source.
>> >
>> >I'd love to be a customer! I keep asking Redhat about it, but there's
>> >no product to buy.  I think that if you offered a cleaner distribution,
>> >you'd have a viable product.  It works for Redhat linux....
>> >ActiveState Perl, Tcl ect.  Other companies offer similar Unix-like
>> >products, but cygwin is better.  :)
>>
>> If you mean a product as in a $30 CD, then that's not available.
>>
>> We do have a product, however.  It just costs $$$ I just got off of a
>> phone call with a potential customer, in fact.
>>
>> If you mean a product as in a product for which you can send "ssh doesn't
>> work" type bugs, then that is not available.  The product is
>> geared towards
>> the development environment.  So, gcc and gdb are supported.  bash is not.
>> ssh is not.
>>
>> We will sell support for more than just gcc and gdb but we don't have
>> standard pricing for that yet.  It requires some negotiation.
>> Since Red Hat
>> is really not in the business of supporting Windows applications, we have
>> to be very careful in our Cygwin support deals.  Obviously Cygwin is
>> not the core focus of Red Hat.
>>
>> >( Would someone at Redhat please copy this to Rebecca
>> Ward at redhat dot  I can't find
>> >her email, I doubt she reads the list.)
>>
>> rward at redhat dot com is her address.  If you are not getting
>> responses from Red Hat sales, please send me private email and I'll try
>> get that resolved.
>>
>> cgf
>>
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