Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/05/07/13:32:09
At 01:17 PM 5/7/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
> >> I can't make any guarantees about 1.3.3 since I don't know exactly
> >> how stable 1.3.2 will be. It would help if people would try snapshots
> >> but of course no one does.
> >
> >Does anyone think that snapshots would see more usage if setup were able to
> >download and install them? Would this be a worthwhile behavior?
>
>I guess I've always thought that if the simple act of downloading something,
>uncompressing it, and copying it was too much for someone then the quality
>of whatever bug reports they could come up with would be pretty pathetic.
Actually, if someone were to invoke setup in this process, one only needs to
download the DLL and then use setup to uncompress and put files in place, no?
Still, I think Chris has a point, regardless of the mechanism used to get
the snapshot. In any case, setup now should do everything "needed" except
show the snapshots to the user.
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