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Re: self-upgrading setup.exe


Sounds nice, but I don't like the transparent idea as I've actually
chosen to not upgrade on occasion.

Earnie.

Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> This is a proof-of-concept patch.
> 
> The concept is to have setup.exe self upgrade - replaceing the current
> open file.
> 
> When combined with parameters, this can be transparent to the user -
> setup can run through to the point it was at before the upgrade need was
> detected and carried out.
> 
> In the longer term, this is a _significant_ step towards being able to
> give setup full dpkg/rpm capabilities _AND_ to allowing setup.exe to
> potentially link to cygwin1.dll (via Openlibrary) or use other cygwin
> programs as part of it's operation.
> 
> Conceptually that requires more than this - it requires dependency
> ordered downloads, and some more intelligence that setup has today.
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         Name: replaceself.patch
>    replaceself.patch    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>                     Encoding: 7bit
> 
>                       Name: copyandspawn.cc
>    copyandspawn.cc    Type: text/x-c
>                   Encoding: 7bit

-- 
Earnie.

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