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Re: where is the full.exe
On 10/10/07, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> Steven Woody wrote:
>
> > i heard there is a full.exe which is a full installer of cygwin.
> > where can i get it? thanks!
>
> If such a thing did exist it would certainly not be officially
> recommended or supported to it's off-topic for this list. In the bad
> old days the Cygwin distro used to be one monolithic file but it was too
> cumbersome because it became the file became obsolete the second any
> individual package needed to be updated. So this idea is very
> unworkable in practice, which is why it hasn't been done that way for
> about 9 or 10 years.
>
> Brian
>
okay, but is there a full installer availabe for current cygwin
distribution? thanks.
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