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Christopher Faylor wrote: > Do we think it's a good idea? > Ah, now that's another question. I got the idea it was general consensus that setup should and would (eventually) do that. I think I am the one that originally removed (and I am not sure it was still there by the time I was messing around) that ability. That said it wasn't then and isn't now my general consensus that it should be done that way although I do think it would be a nice feature, but I also question the advisability/feasibility of doing it since there is currently a move to have setup deal with categories, dependencies and the like. What do we do with a package that is in the directories below setup but its file name doesn't match the norm with the version number and the package name. You won't have setup to give you Categories and dependencies. You won't have setup to tell you what is the Previous/Current/test version. I'm just not sure it doesn't open up a bigger can of worms to allow setup to do that. It can be done now even with setup requiring the ini file, it is just that someone who wants to install an unknown package like that needs to know how to edit setup.ini to do it - maybe that is the way to go - I just don't know. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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