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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:33:04 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Seeking Cygwin installer for the simpleminded
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I would urge anyone who thinks they need to spin their own installer
to instead think about contributing to the current setup.exe code base.

It seems crazy to me that anyone would try to promote something else
merely because setup.exe lacks some functionality.

cgf

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:54:08AM -0700, Joshua Franklin wrote:
>I've done it, too.  I was working in bit of network space and wanted
>the basics of Cygwin without using much disk space.  I used Nullsoft's
>Free installer, NSIS:
>
>http://www.nullsoft.com/free/
>
>I decided my "cygwin lite" might possibly be useful enough for other
>people to use so I put up a SourceForge project page.

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