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: setup.exe: something besides C++? From: Robert Collins To: Steve Coleman Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <3E66173E.5000703@jhuapl.edu> References: <3E66173E.5000703@jhuapl.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jewQYiJpTcDQgziVCNww" Organization: Message-Id: <1046894731.8091.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 06 Mar 2003 07:05:31 +1100 --=-jewQYiJpTcDQgziVCNww Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 02:26, Steve Coleman wrote: > It wouldn't replace setup.exe since the initial install would still have=20 > to be done but it might be a good idea to have something that could=20 > check if there are updates to designated packages that are deemed=20 > important to the specific Cygwin user, and notify or even just perform=20 > the updates like the "Windows Update" service.=20 Funnily enough, setup can do 95% of that already. It can run with command line parameters, and update to a shared cache of files, and also download from the same cache in preference to the internet. Don't let that stop you though :]. Variety in choices is good, and any mirror-side changes we make to setup will be down slowly to avoid breaking 3rd party tools (and upset :}:}). Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-jewQYiJpTcDQgziVCNww Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ZliKI5+kQ8LJcoIRAh65AJ9z6auz+mMo1ygWSjF1ncTFBUMLWACgoF11 /5T06DSwHY4nKdSCYjHrWRc= =z+ga -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jewQYiJpTcDQgziVCNww--