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RE: setup.exe updated
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 13:36:06 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup.exe updated
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >I've copied across the new setup. As there are no new
> features (other
> >than not crashing as much :}) I don't think this warrants an
> >announcement.
>
> Does this version understand bzip2 files? It occurred to me
> that I don't really have to change 'upset'. I can just run
> bzip2 when upset completes successfully.
No. Only HEAD understands setup.bz2. HEAD should get released in another
2-3 weeks.
For backward compatability, and to allow folk to change over (as they
do) bit by bit, I think we should have both the .ini and the .bz2 for a
while. I gave a sample post-upset line to create the bz2 file in an
earlier email.
Rob