Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/05/18:42:18
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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Charles Wilson wrote:
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> > Seems pretty clear to me, that for anyone on a slow link, or anyone
> > charged by volume, that the modular install is much more efficient.
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> Faulty analogy. Most users would probably only download the monolithic=20
> tarball once, for their initial installation. Then use setup.exe and=20
> update things in a modular fashion after that.
I'm not about to actively maintain two forms of setup that are so
different. And until someone offers to do that, I think it is a
reasonable assumption to make that the install form you start with you
continue with.
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Also, I supported having a 'install-in-one-hit-everything' in setup
earlier in my email, where you did not quote.
Now, for grabbing everything at once, there are many ways:
wget ~=3D setup ~=3D winwget ~=3D ftp mget ~=3D tool foo
and they are *all* orthogonal to the monolithic download discussion.
I'm trying to highlight the weakness's with a monolithic download, not
the pros and cons of a full-install strategy.
Rob
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