> I'm curious, partly for myself. Would it not be a fairly simple alternative > for your users if you distributed a binary package and told them that > installing Cygwin is a prereq for running your binary (assuming it is)? > List, is there a reason this should not be done?
That's how it'll be done if the package doesn't get the required votes. In this case the present packaging would be fine, ie. it would go under /usr/local. The downside of this would be that users will have to satisfy the dependencies by theirselves -- not a big trouble when compared with having to compile the software. Got a good "D'OH" moment out of Corinnas remark -- will fix the packaging ASAP. -- jussi
