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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: Move zlib up one level?
Date:	Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:54:43 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Move zlib up one level?


> On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:37:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
> >
> >
> >> >Yeah, but isn't cygcheck a cygwin1.dll application?
> >> The only problem is that I had to pull a lot of code out of
setup.exe.
> >
> >Not good.. particularly with the amount of changes I'm accruing in
setup
> >at the moment.
>
> You're not planning on changing any of the files in /etc/setup are
you?
> That would be a bad thing(TM).

Not directly or immediately. And certainly any changes I do suggest will
be done in a backward compatible fashion..

There are some things I believe we should be able to do with
/etc/setup...
1) Detect cross-package conflicts. Say foo and bar both contain
/usr/bin/ld.exe.
2) The lst files are currently gz' files, I think it would be good to
change to using bz2 in the future.

Doing the 1st one really requires a more database orientated approach --
long term of course.

> Also, since I wrote most (all?) of what I'm pulling out, I felt pretty
> comfortable with it...

Oh, sure :}. I wasn't meaning you weren't capable, just that having the
same code in two places is bad because of the capability for skew.

Rob

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