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RE: setup.exe updated
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 13:55:28 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup.exe updated
Sure. I'd not intended to remove the setup.ini processing capability
from setup.exe for any current reason. (The fallback takes all of , oh,
3 lines) :].
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:36:06PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:34 PM
> >> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> >> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> >I've copied across the new setup. As there are no new
> >> features (other
> >> >than not crashing as much :}) I don't think this warrants an
> >> >announcement.
> >>
> >> Does this version understand bzip2 files? It occurred to me
> >> that I don't really have to change 'upset'. I can just run
> >> bzip2 when upset completes successfully.
> >
> >No. Only HEAD understands setup.bz2. HEAD should get released in
> >another 2-3 weeks.
> >
> >For backward compatability, and to allow folk to change over (as they
> >do) bit by bit, I think we should have both the .ini and the
> .bz2 for a
> >while.
>
> Actually, I intend to have setup.ini and setup.bz2 pretty
> much forever. I don't think there is any harm in keeping both
> around. It will certainly make upset processing faster and
> eliminate (or postpone
> indefinitely) the need for upset to understand compressed
> setup.ini files.
>
> cgf
>