Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:18:19 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: fork/exec/wait -> system .... More problems. CygWin is that bad?
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> DJGPP actually has a *bigger* problem because
> we use more zips, so the chances of a critical zip not being installed
> are higher.  The only thing in our favor is that less zips are
> critical.

If we would to decide that having less zips is a good idea, there
should be no problem to provide one or two large archives with
everything.

I thought splitting the DJGPP distribution was a deliberate decision,
perhaps because the different packages are much more loosely-coupled
in DJGPP than they are in Cygwin, and because they are all statically
linked.