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Re: [ITP] rebase


Jason Tishler wrote:
> I would like to contribute a stand-alone (non-persistent) rebase to
> the standard Cygwin distribution.  This version is a combination of my
> main() (i.e., command line interface) and Ralf Habacker's imagehelper
> library.  Note that this version should work on Windows Me and
> automatically fixes bad relocations instead of corrupting DLLs (both
> thanks to Ralf).
> 
> I have also included rebaseall.bat, which is a crude, but easy way for
> users to rebase their entire system.  This method of rebasing can be
> used until I finally contribute (persistent) rebase functionality to
> Cygwin's setup.exe.

> Note that I will be fleshing out the README and setup.hint (i.e.
> ldesc) while the voting takes place.

Removing mentions of fetchmail from the README would be good!

I think a --help option would be nice.

Should this rebase maybe be a Cygwin, not MinGW version?
(So that we can use POSIX paths with it?)


Max.


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