Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00de01c1e52b$87abeb30$42a18c09@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <001a01c1e50a$3aa01d50$770110ac@caeschmitt.de> <123480150.20020416102617@syntrex.com> Subject: An deeper and not before asked question about setup.exe Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:46:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Apr 2002 09:46:06.0563 (UTC) FILETIME=[87ABEB30:01C1E52B] First, I've read this thread, and others: > Yes, it is! :) This topic was covered multiple times on the mailing > list already, see this thread from 4 April: > Question on the new behavior of setup.exe In it, it says: This is done to allow fetching from multiple mirrors. My question is this: _Why_ is it necessary to create mirror-named directories to allow the downloading from multiple mirrors? I have no doubt it was done for a reason, but I would very much like to know that reason. Thanks, Max Bowsher. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/