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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	<cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: setup.ini change
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:38:58 +1000
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For Clarity: I meant the or to be an exclusive or - that is that we
should choose only one of the formats..

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: RFC: setup.ini change


> I'd like to change this:
> install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403
> source:  release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899
>
> to
>
> install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403
> 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9e
> source:  release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899
> 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9f
>
> or
>
> install: release/bash/bash-20000901.tar.bz2 276403
> install-md5: 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9e
> source:  release/bash/bash-20000901-src.tar.bz2 1892899
> source-md5: 158044165a04791968a7e7fc8daaef9f
>
> I don't care which we choose. My preference is the first one - it will
> keep the files smaller. Either will cause setup.exe to barf when first
> introduced. Likewise for third party parsers that are ... pedantic.
>
> To help deal with this I suggest the following approach:
> with the new version I want to release, we include the new format ini
> parser, but do nothing with the data. Then we can introduce features
to
> use it at our leisure.
>
> Any preference folk?
>
> Rob
>
>

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