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Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

On 2010-04-13 20:16, Steven Monai wrote: 
I see no need to get tricky here. You can just download the official
sources .run file, and unpack it by running it. The default bash
environment of a base Cygwin install should be capable of running it.
The file unpacks itself into a directory named 'makeself-2.1.5' whose
contents can then be massaged into a suitable directory tree.

The disadvantage of that approach is that manual intervention is required, where using git avoids that and allows for a normal `cygport fetch'. The only other possibility would be for cygport to support overriding the src_unpack commands, and while that has been requested and I have considered it, I have yet to decide on a reliable implementation of that feature.

I heartily agree with this recommendation, and I am not nearly so biased.

Thanks. ;-)


Yaakov

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