From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <950B17ED-5523-40A7-9CF5-CB21434591B9@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tws7rtb2.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On Aug 10, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> Warren Young writes:
>
>> In that sense, setup.exe is already bootstrapped: it has everything
>> within itself to be able to replace itself.
>
> I do like the concept of a self-contained executable, but teaching
> setup.exe new tricks is likely a larger effort than adding a script here
> and there to an install system.
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?
Why do you need a self-contained POSIX environment to replace setup.exe?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-10 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` Warren Young [this message]
2015-08-10 17:00 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 17:09 ` setup Warren Young
2015-08-10 18:03 ` setup Achim Gratz
2015-08-10 18:41 ` setup Warren Young
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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