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Re: RFC: setup package in Base
On 4/10/2018 2:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
In order to speed up the adoption of the latest setup.exe, would it make
sense to ship it as a package? Here is an initial draft of what this
might look like:
https://github.com/cygwinports/setup/blob/master/setup.cygport
Note that the executable itself is version/release-numbered so that we
never have to deal with replacing a running executable (setup itself).
I like the idea. One thing to think about is how to deal with the
situation in which a buggy version of setup fails to update itself.
Maybe we should modify the existing warning that's issued when a newer
version of setup is available. It could say that setup should update
itself, but it could also give a link to a script that does this
manually in case something goes wrong.
Also, as an alternative to a simple symlink, what about a wrapper script
(such as the attached) that would allow more "yum-like" commands like
"cygsetup update" or "cygsetup install foo bar"?
I like this too. There seems to be no downside, since the wrapper
accepts all existing setup flags.
Ken