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Subject: | Re: A Mingw32 runtime library independent of MSVCRT.DLL |
Date: | Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:07:31 +0100 |
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On mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net, Robert Collins wrote: > Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer. ...snip... > Patches to link setup.exe > with your mingw ACR will be considered like all other patches - I'm not > particularly for or against linking into it. My argument against: Wouldn't this be needless bloat for setup.exe? Why ship setup.exe with a C library linked in when there is an acceptable one already present on just about every Windows computer? (Unless of course there is a specific bug in msvcrt that is troubling setup.exe?) Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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