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Re: Base Cygwin now requires Python?


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:41:05AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 16 May 2013 23:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>On 16 May 2013 07:41, Steven Penny wrote:
>>>> Because of this dependency line
>>>>
>>>> mintty
>>>>  cygutils
>>>
>>>Hmm, mintty doesn't depend on cygutils anymore since setup.exe creates
>>>the "Cygwin Terminal" shortcut for it, and its setup.hint reflects
>>>that. Yet setup.ini does indeed contain the following line for mintty:
>>>
>>>requires: bash cygutils cygwin
>>>
>>>Is the problem that the setup.hint doesn't contain a 'requires:' line
>>>at all (since mintty has no dependencies apart from the implicit
>>>'cygwin')? Does upset keep previous dependencies in that case?
>>
>> What??? No!  Of course it doesn't!  What a daft notion!
>>
>> Oh.  Actually, now that I think of it, the way upset is run, it's the
>> union of an existing setup.ini and setup.hint.  So, if there is no
>> requires: line it would get pulled from setup.ini.
>>
>> I've taken the liberty of adding a "requires:" line to mintty's setup.hint.
>
>Thanks, I've updated the copy in mintty svn accordingly.

I've confirmed that setup.exe now has a blank requires line.

Hmm.  Actually, I think that means that the requires line could actually
be deleted since upset will no longer try to use the line from
setup.ini.


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