From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 86629 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2015 17:00:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 86588 invoked by uid 89); 10 Aug 2015 17:00:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-in-03.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-03.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:00:31 +0000 Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3mqk7b6MTbzXHs for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:00:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8149150865 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:00:27 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-05.arcor-online.net 3mqk7b5Xhbz2xVL Received: from Gertrud (p54B473CD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.180.115.205]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3mqk7b5Xhbz2xVL for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:00:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup References: <87vbcwfdvw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87r3nkfaxn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87mvy8f8dz.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150803202908.GI17917@calimero.vinschen.de> <87a8u8f4s5.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <871tfidhrm.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150805080833.GT17917@calimero.vinschen.de> <87614tn3nm.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150806100338.GY17917@calimero.vinschen.de> <87d1z0if40.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20150807194737.GO12475@calimero.vinschen.de> <874mkawe0c.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87tws7rtb2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <950B17ED-5523-40A7-9CF5-CB21434591B9@etr-usa.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:00:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <950B17ED-5523-40A7-9CF5-CB21434591B9@etr-usa.com> (Warren Young's message of "Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:45:16 -0600") Message-ID: <87pp2vrsd0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 Warren Young writes: > Isn=E2=80=99t the whole point of this discussion that setup.exe already k= nows > all the tricks it needs to in order to do what we want here, except > for the =E2=80=9Creplace setup.exe in place=E2=80=9D issue I=E2=80=99ve b= rought 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. --=20 +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra