Re: setup and colons in filenames

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 26/10/2017 19:25, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
> > Achim Gratz wrote:
> > > Jon Turney writes:
> > > > This seems a really odd thing to do, as we've no idea about the
> > > > dependencies of these packages, so installing them is unlikely work
> > > > well.
> > >
> > > This particular code path was vetoed from getting thrown out last time I
> > > worked in that area since it would break long-standing expectations
> > > w.r.t. local package archives that have no setup.ini or even *.hint. 
> >
> > > Can we have a link to that discussion, please?
> >
> > It's somewhere in that thread from June 2015 related to the changes
> > between 2.871 and 2.873.  Also one of the intermediate versions got
> > complaints due to that code path not working correctly.

Using your clues, the only seemingly relevant discussion I found was 
starting at [1], but I can't find where it says anything like that.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-06/msg00091.html