Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd setup behaviors From: Robert Collins To: derbyshire@globalserve.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3D41B7EC.23677.4C4C3D0D@localhost> References: <3D41B7EC.23677.4C4C3D0D@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 27 Jul 2002 11:05:07 +1000 Message-Id: <1027731907.525.0.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 10:58, Paul Derbyshire wrote: > On 27 Jul 2002 at 9:35, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > ...It seems to be. Started a download and got to a few % before I > > > killed it. > > > How come the binary distribution isn't there? > > > > Because the self-replacement logic hasn't been merged from my proff of > > concept code into product. Self replacement should be done differently > > from other file in-use replacement, because the program can do it > > nicely. See for instance gnutella. > > So it is slated for a future release? Yes - see the cygwin-apps archives for more information. > ... allow mirroring's > benefits to extend to the setup component itself. setup.exe is already mirrored to all the mirror sites. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/