RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2002 11:45 AM
> > To: Robert Collins; 'Jehan'; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> > Hey, you were the one who brought up debian...
> 
> Actually, I brought up the technique dpkg uses to address the same
> issue. But I can understand that being misinterpreted.

Gotcha...

> > I am listening...  I don't know where you got this one from, 
> > but I respect
> > your membership in the Cygwin/XFree86 community.
> 
> From the "Like it or not" comment/

Well I didn't mean to imply that you didn't care.

> > > The simple fact is, I disagree with your proposal, and you 
> > have made no
> > > convincing arguments to change my mind. What you are 
> > suggesting is not
> > > what 'most' windows installers do, it is not flexible, it is a step
> > > backwards in approach, and a proper solution is not that hard to do!
> > > 
> > What you are suggesting is akin to Windows installers run 
> > batch files in
> > the background?
> 
> No, I've not mentioned batch files or shell scripts, just data driven
> and interpretation.
> 
> > I
> > heard your point regarding the backend data-driven support, 
> > but lets be
> > serious, that kind of functionality is months away.
> 
> I'm not talking backend at this point, just something contained in the
> package that gets presented to the user in some fashion. It can be 100%
> GUI without any complaints from me. After all - that is what the users
> expect.
> 
> > Fine, how's this, 
> > I'll rip out
> > the specific references to cygwin.bat and instead have setup 
> > parse the ini
> > for what it should display in that last window and how many it should
> > display.  This is how installishield and others do it.  How's 
> > that for a
> > solution?
> 
> Much better. How about this tweak:
> Packages extract a file - lets call it
> '/var/setup/setup-shortcuts/packagename.icons
> 
> Parse that file for shortcut icons to offer to create. Each icon will
> need:
> * Name to give the shortcut
> * Location to place it (i.e. %DESKTOP% | %STARTMENU%/subpath | / (to
> place in cygwin root dir))
> * Target to point to (i.e. /usr/X11R6/...
> 
> So a format like
> ===
> "Name of shortcut1" "location of shortcut 1" "target or shortcut 1"
> "Name of shortcut2" "location of shortcut 2" "target or shortcut 2"
> ===
> 
> Makes sense to me.

Yup, now to read up on the setup code and figure out how best to do this.

> > 
> > P.S. My damn keyboard is dying...  Also, do I need a debug version of
> > setup.exe from you or will you be satisified with output from the
> > non-debug version?
> 
> Uhmm, I'm building a debug version for you at the moment.

Thanks, just checking to make sure, as it is almost 10pm here (I'm sure it
is like 10am there) :-)

Cheers,
Nicholas

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