Re: cygwin installer

[Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>]

Jonah Bossewitch wrote:
> some documentation for creating a standalone windows installer 

Another way that hasn't been mentioned is to:

1) Run setup.exe to download all the packages you need.  Get it all 
working and tested.

2a) (Simple path.) Next, put the setup.exe and the download tree that 
was created on a central file share.  Then tell your students to run 
setup.exe from there and tell it to do a Local install and don't change 
anything.  Just say "Next" all the way through.  You might need to 
fiddle with setup.ini to make sure the packages you need default to 
being installed.

2b) (Harder.)  If you really need it to be totally prompt-less, there 
was a proposal once to add command line flags to setup.exe to make it 
more automatable.  You could be the one to finally implement that idea. 
 Once that is done, there are a bunch of ways you can use it, ranging 
from a simple DOS batch file to run setup.exe with the right flags, to 
using one of the various Windows installer tools to pack the whole mess 
up into a single EXE file and run setup.exe with the right flags.

Beware that if you're going to distribute binaries in this way, you will 
also have to distribute the corresponding sources.

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