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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Brian Cowan <brian.cowan@hcl.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup?
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 16:02:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <373241580.20220903160202@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SI2PR04MB5821E6F82723979640AD175AFE789@SI2PR04MB5821.apcprd04.prod.outlook.com>

Greetings, Brian Cowan!

Please bottom post in this list. And trim unnecessary quoting.

> Well, is it possible to use 7zip? It seems like you can do something like
> it in:
> https://superuser.com/questions/42788/is-it-possible-to-execute-a-file-after-extraction-from-a-7-zip-self-extracting-a

> Not that I think this would help with heuristics, and some AV tools REALLY
> don't like executing things from users' temp directories. (Which .Net
> applications seem to like to do sometimes.)

> Maybe have compressed and uncompressed installers?

This is such a rare occurrence, that we could simply post instructions on how
to unpack the installer, for whom it is a problem.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, September 3, 2022 16:00:09

Sorry for my terrible english...


      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-03 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-24 20:46 Brian Cowan
2022-08-25 16:52 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-08-25 17:11   ` Jon Turney
2022-08-25 18:14     ` Brian Cowan
2022-08-28 15:46       ` Jon Turney
2022-08-31 12:14         ` Brian Cowan
2022-09-03 13:02           ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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