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Subject: | RE: Now that the new setup is here... |
Date: | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:05:19 +1000 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
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> Okay, it's been a week -- and nobody seems to have noticed. That's > promising. So, I'll go out on a limb here, and predict that cgf's > massive reorg of the sourceware/cygwin dir structure won't > upset setup > (no pun intended). Urrgh. > However, it may upset people who are anal > about what > setup does inside it's own "localdir" playground, and may > lead to lots > of duplication and unnecessary re-downloads -- which is bound > to cause > consternation. > > But those are social problems, not technical ones. And ones I have little sympathy for. Setup is a technical tool, not a social one. It's not aimed at being the best downloader, only the best installer. Mirroring that handles directory relocation is a sitecopy style task... > >>> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand > >>> library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0). > However, the name > >>> "libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even > 'cygcheck -c' > >>> gets confused prior to the cygwin-1.3.8 release. > > > > But I didn't do this. > > > So, what's the opinion here? Should we cross the Rubicon? Go. GO. GO! Rob
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