FW: [ANNOUNCEMENT] setup.exe removed from cygwin ftp download

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 15 May 2007 01:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:33:02PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Given the confusion manifested in the recent cygwin mailing-list thread
>> about finding a file in the cygwin ftp directory called "setup.exe" and
>> assuming that it should be used for installing cygwin, I've removed
>> setup.exe from the ftp download area at cygwin.com.
>> 
>> The "Install Cygwin Now!" link, which references
>> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, will continue to work as advertised.
>> 
>> If anyone is in the habit of just downloading the entire ftp area and
>> expecting that a file "setup.exe" will exist there, you will now have to
>> go to the extra step of grabbing a copy of setup.exe using a command
>> like "wget http://cygwin.com/setup.exe";.
> 
> I meant to mention that setup.exe has been repacked with a newer version
> of upx 

  <groucho>Say, isn't this where we came in?</groucho>

> and is 50K smaller.

  Hey, a *real* difference, at last!

  Hey, I just had a great idea.  Let's build a version with some kinda trivial
phone-home in, then push it out to the mirrors, then replace the cygwin.com
version with a clean one but match the timestamps.  That'd really put the wind
up the paranoids!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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