Thanks Andrey for your reply. I prefer to send a direct mail to you to respond, they are a little "angry".
2014/1/23 Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru>: > Greetings, BGINFO4X! > >>> I still think this is a bad idea. I know what you're trying to do. You >>> are basically trying to provide a solution using tools that you more or >>> less understand rather than trying to work within the existing >>> (admittedly crude) release structure to provide benefit to everyone who >>> uses Cygwin. > >> I'm sorry, but this is not true: I only want to give comunity a "base >> package" of something that I already have. > > It is Cygwin providing a base package, that you have. > The key word is "providing", means, it's already available to the community. > What you want to do is to repackage and redistribute what is already packaged > and distributed. Doing fool's work, don't you think? > >> At least on my opinion, as an administrator, has very sense to have a >> "bash windows" in a "nerd-msi" installable form. > > I don't understand your inclination with MSI first It is simple: a) give setup.exe to a non-tech "man/woman" and tell him/her: please, can you install bash? And see what happens ... 95% will fail. b) give for example bginfo4x.msi to a non-tech "man/woman" and tell him/her: please, can you install it? And see what happens ... 95% will succeed. >, and Cygwin does NOT play by Windows rules, second. IMHO: This is a problem that "cygwin people" should solve. > Cygwin, per definition, adapt Linux, not Windows, paradigm, and may be VERY > destructive, if not installed correctly. I know it. Thanks for your time. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
