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From: | Andrew Schulman <schulman DOT andrew AT epamail DOT epa DOT gov> |
Subject: | Re: setup.exe now fast! |
Date: | Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:25 -0500 |
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> I recently found that new 'setup.exe' works much better. > > Before new changes 'setup.exe' require up to 10 minute to make > list of available packages if they stored on Samba share in intranet > and some quickly if they stored locally on hard drive. > > As I understand this change introduced in version 2.738: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-12/msg00029.html > > and author (Jon Turney) was starred: > > http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ > > By now 'setup.exe' was started in 10 sec! Yes, it's really amazing. Big thanks to Jon for the time we'll all save every time we run setup. In the past, I always assumed that setup was slow because it was doing Lots Of Very Important Work. Now I see it was just slow! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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