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Re: Trouble with running cygwin dll on Vortex86MX+ CPU


On 4/7/2014 6:41 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote:
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Geetings, Larry,

Some comments about this (sorry if this is off-tipic):

Since you're providing this Cygwin service, I don't consider information
about this service to be off-topic.  And, of course, if *I* don't consider
it off-topic, it certainly can't be. ;-)

1) There used to be a directory to pull the snapshots, but that's been
    removed or otherwise made inaccessable a while ago, so archving the
    snapshots has been impossible for me.

Understood.  Yeah, access to "snapshots", among others, is turned off to
robots.  I'd say check with Chris on this one to see if there could be
some accommodation here.

2) Packaging changes of setup.exe have made extracting the version string
    impossible, save for actually running setup, which isn't something I'm
    going to do on a daily basis.  If there is a method of extracting this
    info from it, please do tell me how.

I'm assuming it used to just be in the RC file in the past.  Didn't look
in the history to trace it back.  But now it is generated and put in
setup_version.c as a global constant setup_version.

3) The format of setup.ini hasn't changed in any significant way that
    prevents newer versions of setup from working with older versions of
    the achive, and vise-versa, so it hasn't been worth doing regular
    achives of setup.  Mostly I tell people to grab the lastest setup and
    try it first.

Yes, generally, this should work and I agree that this is the first,
easiest answer if there is no corresponding setup for a particular date.  I
was under the impression that you were also pulling setups with each
release.  That, of course, is no guarantee of direct correspondence
either but it's close.  No matter.

    The exceptions are for the Legacy release (hard coded for -legacy)
    as well as the preview (-2) release, but that, again, was most about
    the name of the setup file and the initial release path names.
    So, there really hasn't been much incentive to archive setup.

    That being said, I do have a Legacy and a -2 setup versions available
    for those that need them, as well as some other older releases of
    setup, just in case.

Yes, I noticed.  That's a "Good Thing"(tm).  :-)

Thanks,


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Larry

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