Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/21/16:08:08
> 1) When I went to retrieve "the latest version" of setup.exe, I saw
> that the current setup.exe has a version of 1.45.something, but has a
> newer timestamp than setup-1.48.exe. I tried searching the mailing list
> archives for mentions of setup-1.48.exe to see what the story was, but
> the search engine ignored the numbers. So, which one should we be using?
1.48 is experimental. It has lots of new goodies, but is missing a
few key routines Chris added to his version. So, try 1.48 and see if
it works (and let us know!), and if it doesn't, use setup.exe instead.
> 2) Running setup to get /any/ packages always rewrites the cygwin.bat file.
> Unfortunately, I have to edit that file in order to make cygwin
> useful[0]. I've been thinking[1] of patching setup to only write
> the file under certain conditions, but that raises the question:
> when does that file need to be recreated, and when can we skip it?
> (I am not a cygwin expert.)
Why not just rename the file *you* use, and ignore the one setup
creates?
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