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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:25:11 -0500
Subject: Re: setup vs setup 1.48, and the cygwin.bat file
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I use cygwin on every machine I work on, and will never use Windows again
without first installing it.
I'd like to thank you all VERY much for making my windows experience
tolerable...
As a whole, cygwin is by far the best 'suite' of software I've ever
seen.... Even more useful to me than MS office... (Hey, I'm a developer)...

DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>:
> 1.48 is experimental.  It has lots of new goodies, but is missing a
> few key routines Chris added to his version.  So, try 1.48 and see if
> it works (and let us know!), and if it doesn't, use setup.exe instead.

Ran setup 1.48 the other day to update my install.
Here are a couple of things I noticed.

- The -f option didn't seem to enable a forced install over NetRelease
1.1.0. Even after uninstalling/deleting the old version, the registry keys
were still there, causing setup 1.48 to be unable to reinstall many
packages.

- The warning about using the root of a partition seemed a little
excessive. I've always had / mounted as C:\, and found that this is pretty
natural and the few files/directories that were added were tolerable. (I
actually thought sometime might have changed so I put it in c:\cygwin
first, and after examining the install directory, uninstalled and put it
back in c:\.

- Anything that can be done to minimize download would be good. A
combination of -d and -u options (download only, but only grab files for
newer packages than the files that exist in the current directory) would be
fantastic too.


PS, if anyone is interested...
I've been doing DB2 UDB for NT development using GCC for a couple of weeks
now, and I've got it working very well.
About the only thing needed to make it easier to do would be a way to dump
the exports of a DLL that has had symbols stripped. I'm sure it exists
somewhere (quick view does it), but I haven't found it anywhere.



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