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Re: [ITP] rebase
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Jason Tishler" <jason at tishler dot net>,"Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:14:46 -0000
- Subject: Re: [ITP] rebase
- References: <20030124215135.GA1584@tishler.net>
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.