Building A Custom Cygwin Installer
Intro – How This And Other Articles Relate To What We Do At The Labs
As this is our blog’s inaugural article, I wanted the content to really reflect the focus of our consulting practice and product development efforts. We founded our business to help our clients squeeze the monkey work out of their software development process, and one of the biggest unnecessary time sponges we see is the frequent occurrence of ‘it works on my box, why not yours?’ types of problems. Many of these occur simply because one of your developers’ environments is missing a third-party component on which some script or procedure depends. If your shop includes a mix of Windows and Linux/Unix developers then one way to ensure that everyone is working off the same set of dependencies is to equip each Windows box with a standardized set of Cygwin utilities. Read the rest of this entry »
