Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 11:07:27 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: info & Setup 1.43 (new version) Message-ID: <20000504110727.A15094@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E02B@IIS000> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E02B@IIS000>; from Dautrevaux@microprocess.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:39:38PM +0200 On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:39:38PM +0200, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >> If we get a correct dir file, we'll add it to the distribution. > >IMHO It's not good to ship a dir file, as users are allowed to install only >parts of cygwin (I hope :-)), so a prebuilt dir file will reference >unexisting info files and may be difficult to maintain. Actually, by default setup.exe installs everything. If someone chooses not to install a complete installation and then is surprised when they do an "info gcc" and find that gcc is not available, I'm not going to be incredibly sympathetic. However, if you want to submit a patch to setup.c, I'll certainly consider it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com