Subject: Re: Odd setup behaviors
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 27 Jul 2002 11:05:07 +1000

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 10:58, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2002 at 9:35, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > > ...It seems to be. Started a download and got to a few % before I
> > > killed it.
> > > How come the binary distribution isn't there?
> > 
> > Because the self-replacement logic hasn't been merged from my proff of
> > concept code into product. Self replacement should be done differently
> > from other file in-use replacement, because the program can do it
> > nicely. See for instance gnutella.
> 
> So it is slated for a future release? 

Yes - see the cygwin-apps archives for more information.

> ... allow mirroring's 
> benefits to extend to the setup component itself.

setup.exe is already mirrored to all the mirror sites. 

Rob

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