From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25406 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2002 03:27:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25300 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2002 03:27:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jxmls03.se.mediaone.net) (24.129.0.111) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2002 03:27:37 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu (att-98-131-105.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.131.105]) by jxmls03.se.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1B3Shn03954; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:28:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C673A86.8060006@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:27:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gareth Pearce CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00521.txt.bz2 Gareth Pearce wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:31:01PM -0800, Michael wrote: >> >Setup.exe seems to crash and burn rather ungracefully if setup.ini is >> >missing it's timestamp and version lines at the top. >> >> Doctor, doctor! It hurts when I do this... >> >> Luckily that will never be an issue for cygwin setup. >> >> cgf > > > I assume this is a statement that rolling your own setup.ini for ease of > private instalations is not supported. Even though it seems to be a > regually suggested as a thing to do. Of course it's not supported per se(*) -- but it IS allowed. Just don't do it wrong: Doctor, it hurts when I leave the timestamp and version lines out of my setup.ini. Then make sure your custom version.in HAS timestamp and version info. Sheesh. (*)Support implies some obligation on our part to make sure that your intended use works. We accept no such obligation -- our obligation is to insure that the cygwin dist itself, as propagated on the mirror system, works with our cygwin setup tool. Period. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/