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: [FAQ?] Re: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one big archive ? From: Robert Collins To: Charles Wilson Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" In-Reply-To: <3DEFE1AD.1000707@ece.gatech.edu> References: <1039126829.13185.121.camel@lifelesswks> <3DEFE1AD.1000707@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4pjcfiDqBjXWiT7doSzD" Date: 06 Dec 2002 10:42:02 +1100 Message-Id: <1039131723.13185.130.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 --=-4pjcfiDqBjXWiT7doSzD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > Seems pretty clear to me, that for anyone on a slow link, or anyone > > charged by volume, that the modular install is much more efficient. >=20 > Faulty analogy. Most users would probably only download the monolithic=20 > tarball once, for their initial installation. Then use setup.exe and=20 > update things in a modular fashion after that. I'm not about to actively maintain two forms of setup that are so different. And until someone offers to do that, I think it is a reasonable assumption to make that the install form you start with you continue with. =20 Also, I supported having a 'install-in-one-hit-everything' in setup earlier in my email, where you did not quote. Now, for grabbing everything at once, there are many ways: wget ~=3D setup ~=3D winwget ~=3D ftp mget ~=3D tool foo and they are *all* orthogonal to the monolithic download discussion. I'm trying to highlight the weakness's with a monolithic download, not the pros and cons of a full-install strategy. Rob --=20 --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- --=-4pjcfiDqBjXWiT7doSzD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA97+RKI5+kQ8LJcoIRApSQAJ92TEWgSRRrKf0PIy0qMKIoB9BU5wCfWf+z 9RMuegFuQUNmTmmYvblxZco= =pwra -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4pjcfiDqBjXWiT7doSzD--