From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp2vrsd0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <950B17ED-5523-40A7-9CF5-CB21434591B9@etr-usa.com> (Warren Young's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:45:16 -0600")
Warren Young writes:
> Isn’t the whole point of this discussion that setup.exe already knows
> all the tricks it needs to in order to do what we want here, except
> for the “replace setup.exe in place” issue I’ve brought up separately?
Well, setup.exe today has a lot of probably bitrotted features that
Cygwin never used (even if some of it looks quite interesting and
useful) and there are other things it doesn't do even though it should
probably be doing it.
> Why do you need a self-contained POSIX environment to replace
> setup.exe?
At the moment I'm just thinking whether that might be a more sustainable
way forward.
Regards,
Achim.
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2015-07-28 19:19 setup Achim Gratz
2015-07-29 12:51 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-01 15:52 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 18:03 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 19:07 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 20:02 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 20:29 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-03 20:31 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 20:40 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-03 20:54 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-03 21:20 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-04 18:35 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-05 8:08 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-05 15:42 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-06 10:03 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-06 15:58 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-07 19:47 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-07 21:05 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-10 8:44 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-10 15:02 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-11 7:48 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-11 19:53 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-08 5:22 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 9:18 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-08-10 16:33 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 14:44 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-10 16:40 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 16:45 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-10 17:00 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2015-08-10 17:09 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-10 18:03 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 18:41 ` setup Warren Young
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2015-05-29 19:37 setup Achim Gratz
2015-05-31 10:24 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-01 18:11 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-01 18:34 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-01 19:49 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-01 21:06 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-02 5:17 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-02 8:29 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-02 16:24 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-03 8:19 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-03 8:31 ` setup Marco Atzeri
2015-06-03 11:07 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-03 12:45 ` setup Eric Blake
2015-06-03 16:51 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-03 17:04 ` setup Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-06-03 17:11 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-08 12:56 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 13:49 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 18:34 ` setup Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-06-08 18:47 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 19:05 ` setup Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-06-08 19:35 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 18:52 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-06 20:58 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-07 20:21 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-08 13:28 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 18:07 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-08 19:31 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 20:54 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-09 9:56 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-09 16:54 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-10 8:05 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-10 17:47 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-10 18:54 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-10 20:50 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-11 10:06 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-11 10:11 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-11 18:10 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-11 21:03 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-12 10:29 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-12 17:05 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-12 17:37 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-24 20:00 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-25 8:59 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-25 16:40 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-25 20:16 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-26 8:34 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-26 18:07 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-26 19:03 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-28 13:40 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-29 13:41 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-30 4:59 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-30 16:40 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-30 17:14 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-06-30 18:42 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-07-01 20:37 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-07-02 9:10 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-07-02 21:03 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-07-03 10:14 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-07-11 21:31 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-07-13 9:44 ` setup Corinna Vinschen
2015-07-14 19:57 ` setup Achim Gratz
2002-03-04 19:28 setup Robert Collins
2002-03-04 23:38 ` setup Michael A Chase
2002-03-05 8:31 ` setup Brian Keener
2002-02-20 23:10 Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 6:12 Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 13:06 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-18 17:26 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 20:05 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-18 20:19 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 20:31 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-18 20:34 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 20:44 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-18 20:50 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-19 8:53 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-24 3:03 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 20:46 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-18 20:56 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-20 22:45 ` Setup Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-02-20 23:00 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-24 3:05 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-24 9:07 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-18 20:18 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-18 20:30 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 18:48 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-18 19:50 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-22 5:38 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-22 14:46 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-22 19:15 ` Setup Brian Keener
2002-02-22 23:04 ` Setup Christopher Faylor
2002-02-24 2:38 ` Setup Robert Collins
2002-02-27 10:20 ` Setup Brian Keener
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