> This is in reply to Christopher Faylor's post > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01430.html > > With this in mind I will like you to consider publishing in the Cygwin FAQ > the guidlines one should use for distributing an (open source) application > outside the official net release. I believe it is an important topic in the > spirit of 'getting our minds set'. > > Personally I am thinking of using the setup tool to install the packages > that creates the environment used to build the application and add the extra > application package(s) to setup.ini.
I have actually thought of getting something like this together. It would include step-by-step instructions for creating your own local custom-package repository. Unfortunately this also means it would have to include discussion of upset and all the problems associated with changes in setup.exe/upset/setup.ini. Any thoughts on whether this would be worth it? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/