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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:32:22AM +0900, green fox wrote:
>Chris, language please.
Sorry for being unclear. I was writing in English.
>The problem in lack of decent package manager is something most of us here
>know for a long time. Hope everyone agrees on this point.
Reiteration of this point in all of your messages does not serve any
useful purpose.
A quick scan of your reply seemed to show that you are asking for
features and outlining well-known shortcomings. Unless you are
volunteering to do that work, this is likely YA wishlist which will go
nowhere.
For your amusement:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-12/msg00019.html
>I hope this is clear enough example for _one_ of the many reasons why
>we need and write workarounds.
I was asking why the *specific* change needed to be implemented. You
did not answer my question. But that's ok. This particular case is
closed anyway.
>As a side note
>libzypp =>Depends on mingw boost C++ gtk e2fsporg and so forth...
>I really like the algorithm they have, but we need it running quick,
>cheap, and simple.
>have not looked into it, but if it matches our requirements, prahaps a
>option. not sure yet.
No idea what libzypp is.
**cgf googles
http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/libzypp/HEAD/
If someone has ported rpm to mingw that would certainly be interesting.
Otherwise, this is a cart-before-the-horse situation.
>One of the reasons we sill have perl/awk/shell scripts to roll things
>out, is when things break, its not that hard to fix/patch a workaround.
I love perl/awk/shell scripts. I use them quite frequently. I was
actually suggesting that they would be an alternative to the suggested
patch. I think that, in general, wrapping your installation needs in a
wrapper is a fine idea.
cgf