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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 23 May 2000 14:22:37 -0400
To:	cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: setup: built-in tar
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In-Reply-To:	<200005231808.OAA23591@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:08:28PM -0400

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:08:28PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> If I remember my GPL correctly all you have to do is make the sources
>> available.  Posting them on the same server in a reasonably conspicuous
>> location meets this requirement.
>
>Until either tar or gzip is updated, then the version in setup no
>longer matches the sources.  Or if someone wants to put setup on a
>CD-ROM that doesn't happen to include tar or gzip.  Or if the person
>building setup.exe (me) has a different version of tar or gzip
>installed on their system than the one on sourceware.

Just a minor point: the tar and gzip that are installed are built from
the sourceware distribution.  They don't come from your installation
they actually exist as tar.exe.gz and gzip.exe.gz files in
~winsup/cinstall.

cgf

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