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R: changing setup executable
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:51:13 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: R: changing setup executable
--- Gio 25/3/10, Rance Hall ha scritto:
> This question is more for my personal
> curiosity than any problem I'm having.
>
> I've noticed that setup.exe has been updated several times
> recently
> and I'm curious as to whats in setup that would need to be
> changed.
>
> I understood setup-legacy when we switched from 1.5 to 1.7
>
> As far as I know, setup.exe is little more than an
> intelligent
> downloader.? Since setup "appears" to download
> everything it needs
> from the net, why would setup itself need to be changed?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rance
Hi Rance,
Setup is a program and as such has its own fixed bugs and
feature improvements that require updated release.
See here from the source the Changelog
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/ChangeLog?rev=2.693&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
Regards
Marco
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