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: <020e01c1e643$14a7e7b0$2000a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Lynn Wilson" , References: <3CBDC021.197A3FF0@swcp.com> Subject: Re: Setup's download directory structure Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:55:35 -0700 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 From: "Lynn Wilson" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:34 Subject: RE: Setup's download directory structure > I'm unhappy with the new structure as well. I also wrote a perl script > (similar to clean_setup.pl) that plows through the download and removes > earlier copies of things in order to save disk space. > > That is the ONLY reason I'm unhappy with the new structure. > > I'd be REALLY happy if setup.exe had a option that would remove earlier > copies of files in whatever directory structure happens to exist. Patches always welcome. The only reason I wrote clean_setup.pl is that I'm a lot better with Perl the C++. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/