X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:58:21 +0800 From: "Steven Woody" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where is the full.exe In-Reply-To: <470CF04E.51C3513D@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <470CF04E.51C3513D@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 10/10/07, Brian Dessent wrote: > Steven Woody wrote: > > > i heard there is a full.exe which is a full installer of cygwin. > > where can i get it? thanks! > > If such a thing did exist it would certainly not be officially > recommended or supported to it's off-topic for this list. In the bad > old days the Cygwin distro used to be one monolithic file but it was too > cumbersome because it became the file became obsolete the second any > individual package needed to be updated. So this idea is very > unworkable in practice, which is why it hasn't been done that way for > about 9 or 10 years. > > Brian > okay, but is there a full installer availabe for current cygwin distribution? thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/