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 Message-ID: <013201c23570$a0077dd0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" Cc: References: <1027739299.557.5.camel@lifelesswks> Subject: Re: A Mingw32 runtime library independent of MSVCRT.DLL Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:07:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 On mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Robert Collins wrote: > Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer. ...snip... > Patches to link setup.exe > with your mingw ACR will be considered like all other patches - I'm not > particularly for or against linking into it. My argument against: Wouldn't this be needless bloat for setup.exe? Why ship setup.exe with a C library linked in when there is an acceptable one already present on just about every Windows computer? (Unless of course there is a specific bug in msvcrt that is troubling setup.exe?) Max. -- 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/