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RE: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Michael A Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>,"Cliff Hones" <cliff at aonix dot co dot uk>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:30:42 +1000
- Subject: RE: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:mchase@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:28 AM
> "Download from Internet" shouldn't care in the least whether
> there is a Cygwin installation present or not. It should
> only care about the files in the local directory tree.
Why? Something that doesn't care about the install at all sounds like a
mirroring tool to me. I've said it before - I'm happy to assist in the
creation of a mirroring tool using the setup.exe parser and classes, but
setup.exe itself.. is not and should not be such a tool.
Rob
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