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Re: [Patch] setup.exe - change to not ask root on download only.
Robert Collins wrote:
> can you generate patches with "-up" ? (See the cygwin contributors
> page).
> It makes it a lot easier to visually grok a patch.
I can do that. Actually I knew I had done it two ways in the past and couldn't
remember the other. Nor was I sure which was the preferred - now I know.
> I'll update this for you to the io_streams code for HEAD committing.
Did it make it in the version you just rolled to the web page.
> Lastly, you were missing a call to get_root_dir_now which resulted in
> /etc/setup/last-cache never getting read.
Hum, I'll have to look at the change you made - I thought mine was reading
either file depending on where it found it. Ah well. Thanks for correcting it
anyways.