ITP: Guile 1.5.6

[David A. Cobb]

Charles Wilson wrote:

>
> Now, all of the RPM-nuts are jumping up and down screaming "RPM! RPM!" 
> right now -- and the Debian faction is yelling "dpkg! dpkg!".  BEFORE 
> voicing that, please go back and READ the 27,374 threads where this 
> has been suggested in the past.  Here's a summary:
>   -- setup.exe must be able to install the packages
>   -- setup.exe is a native windows program
>   -- therefore, we'd need
>      + a native port of rpm, or
>      + change our whole modus operandi to a "two-step" procedure; 
> natively install the "core" packages from regular tarballs -- 
> including an rpm package -- using a native setup.exe, and then use a 
> different tool for system maintainance (or use setup in a different 
> "mode" where it exec's the cygwin rpm.exe -- but this leads to other 
> problems: a cygwin-dependent rpm.exe won't be able to update the 
> cygwin package, unless some of the 'in-use-replace' magic from the 
> current setup is grafted into rpm)


I'm just a plain-nut!  Would it be worthwhile, in your opinion, to look 
at GNUpdate?  At least, it doesn't carry any corporate baggage.

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software.
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