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: A Mingw32 runtime library independent of MSVCRT.DLL From: Robert Collins To: Max Bowsher Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <013201c23570$a0077dd0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> References: <1027739299.557.5.camel@lifelesswks> <013201c23570$a0077dd0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4bC/QsERVa7rZQoVXJiD" Date: 28 Jul 2002 00:00:39 +1000 Message-Id: <1027778439.1913.32.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-4bC/QsERVa7rZQoVXJiD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 23:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > On mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Robert Collins wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > My argument against: >=20 > 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 msvc= rt that > is troubling setup.exe?) Thats one of the things to take into consideration when the time comes to review such a patch. I don't see much point in arguing over something that doesn't exist. Rob --=-4bC/QsERVa7rZQoVXJiD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAj1Cp4cACgkQI5+kQ8LJcoILDQCfUZQG7507s7dp9NOXzzE6UbXB LfwAnAmvoDkJNYivwub+W5yEKBti609K =13bu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4bC/QsERVa7rZQoVXJiD--